1. Logic in the Torah
1. Introduction
2. Instances of logic in the Torah
3. Summary and conclusions
4. As regards the Tanakh
2. Adductive Logic in the Torah
1. The art of knowing
2. Adduction in Western philosophy
3. Adducing prophecies and prophethood
4. Addendum (2005)
3. Qal vaChomer
1. Background
2. The valid moods
3. Preliminaries
4. Samples in the Torah
4. Revised List of Biblical A Fortiori
1. Problems encountered
2. The solution found
3. The data and their analysis
4. Synthesis of Results
5. Addendum (2005)
5. The Language of Biblical A Fortiori
1. Introduction
2. In Torah books
3. In historical books
4. In other books
5. Rejects
6. Miriam’s A Fortiori Argument
1. Formal validation of a fortiori argument
2. The principle of deduction
3. The argument a crescendo
4. The rabbis’ dayo (sufficiency) principle
5. Analysis of Numbers 12:14-15
7. Louis Jacobs’ Contribution
1. Comparing enumerations
2. Cases new to me
3. Three rejects
4. General observations
8. A Fortiori Discourse in the Jewish Bible
1. Introduction and summary
2. A fortiori arguments in the Tanakh
9. A Fortiori Arguments in the Christian Bible
1. Disclaimer
2. Primary findings
3. Analysis of arguments found
4. Jesus of Nazareth
5. Paul of Tarsus
6. Additional findings
10. Logic in the Koran and Hadiths
1. Disclaimer
2. Initial findings in the Koran
3. al-Ghazali’s findings
4. Sticks and carrots
5. About the Koran
6. On logic in the Hadiths
7. The intellectual poverty of Islam
Main References