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      Judaism: The Basics

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      Accessible and wide-ranging, this text is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of Judaism - the oldest of the world’s major faiths.

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      Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast

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      Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern…

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      Jacob Neusner on Religion: The Example of Judaism

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      Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address…

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      Jacob Neusner on Religion: The Example of Judaism

      Aaron W Hughes

      Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address…

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      Neusner on Judaism: Volume 1: History

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      Over a period of fifty years Jacob Neusner has made significant, insightful and challenging contributions to the study of Rabbinic Judaism, particularly in the disciplines covered in the three volumes…

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      Neusner on Judaism: Volume 1: History

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      Over a period of fifty years Jacob Neusner has made significant, insightful and challenging contributions to the study of Rabbinic Judaism, particularly in the disciplines covered in the three volumes…

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      The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation

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      This volume details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover, the Passover sacrifice and the Seder. Commenting on the prescriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, this tractate is…

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      Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together

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      Reveals how a rabbi understands Christ, Mary, and St Paul, and how a priest views creation, Abraham and Sarah, and the prophets. This book shows that differences in responses to…

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      Making God’s Word Work: A Guide to the Mishnah

      Rabbi Jacob Neusner

      The central theme of Making God s Word Work is that, throughout the rules and norms of the Mishnah, and beneath their surface, is a governing theological pattern which defines…

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      Making God’s Word Work

      Rabbi Jacob Neusner

      The central theme of Making God’s Word Work is that, throughout the rules and norms of the Mishnah, and beneath their surface, is a governing theological pattern which defines the…

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      The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation

      This volume details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover, the Passover sacrifice and the Seder. Commenting on the prescriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, this tractate is…

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      The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation

      This volume details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover, the Passover sacrifice and the Seder. Commenting on the prescriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, this tractate is…

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      The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation

      This volume details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover, the Passover sacrifice and the Seder. Commenting on the prescriptions in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, this tractate is…

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      Women and Families

      Women and Families provides a valuable historical introduction to contemporary claims – as well as confusions – about the role and status of women and families in Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity…

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      God’s Rule: The Politics of World Religions

      This work covers a collection of 10 essays in which various authors explain and explore the relationship between the world’s major religions and political power. It covers the complex nature…

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      The Golden Rule: The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions

      The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world’s religions and has been considered by numerous…

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      The Halakhah, Volume 1 Part 1: Between Israel and God. Part A

      Jacob Neusner

      This encyclopaedia covers, rubric by rubric, all of the native category-formations that organize the diverse laws of Judaism into a systematic and coherent structure. In each category there is a…

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      The Halakhah, Volume 1 Part 4: Inside the Walls of the Israelite Household. Part A. At the Meeting of Time and Space

      Jacob Neusner

      In the normative law, the Halakhah embodies the theology of Judaism in the norms of concrete conduct. This encyclopaedia covers, rubric by rubric, all of the native category-formations that organize…

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      The Halakhah, Volume 1 Part 5: Inside the Walls of the Israelite Household. Part B. The Desacralization of the Household

      Jacob Neusner

      In the normative law, the Halakhah embodies the theology of Judaism in the norms of concrete conduct. This encyclopaedia covers, rubric by rubric, all of the native category-formations that organize…

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      The Halakhah: Historical and Religious Perspectives

      Jacob Neusner

      The essays gathered here systematically investigate the religious meaning of the normative law of Judaism, with reference to the concept of time and history that is embodied by the law.

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      Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume One: Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta

      Jacob Neusner

      This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic…

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      The Perfect Torah

      Jacob Neusner

      Jacob Neusner demonstrates in this analysis that the perfect Torah is the medium through which the one, unique God makes himself known. The Judaic statement of monotheism comes to expression…

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      Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Two: Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Sifra, Sifre to Numbers, and Sifre to Deuteronomy

      Jacob Neusner

      This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic…

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      Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Three: Forms, Types and Distribution of Narratives in Song of Songs Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah and a Reprise of Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A

      Jacob Neusner

      This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic…

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      Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume Four: The Precedent and the Parable in Diachronic View

      Jacob Neusner

      This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic…

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      The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism

      Jacob Neusner

      Integrates the theme of Spain in Italy into a broad synthesis of late Renaissance and early modern Italy by restoring the contingency of events, local and imperial decision-making, and the…

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      Contours of Coherence in Rabbinic Judaism (2 vols)

      Jacob Neusner

      A three part set of monographs on the coherence of Rabbinic Judaism in its literature: Part one: In the Rabbinic literature of late antiquity disputes and alternative interpretations of a…

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      Rabbinic Categories: Construction and Comparison

      Jacob Neusner

      A systematic study of the canonical construction of Rabbinic categories, Halakhic, then Aggadic, followed by a comparison of the theological category-formations in Rabbinic Judaism, generative vs. inert, primary vs. subordinate.

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      How the Halakhah Unfolds

      Jacob Neusner

      In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and…

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      Analytical Templates of the Bavli

      Jacob Neusner

      In the Mishnah , the Tosefta , and the commentaries that joined them, the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however, is shaped…

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      Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Third Series

      Jacob Neusner

      This collection of five essays and two book reviews draws on a half-year of work, from mid-2008 to early 2009, written on topics of historical theology and the canon of…

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      The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism

      This concise yet comprehensive volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism.

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      Three Questions of Formative Judaism: History, Literature, and Religion

      Jacob Neusner

      This text encounters the canonical writings of Judaism in the context of their creation at a certain time and place. Jacob Neusner challenges his readers to face the difficult, often…

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      Rabbinic Judaism: The Theological System

      Jacob Neusner

      Rabbinic Judaism, in its classical writings produced from the 1st through to the 7th century of the Common Era, sets forth a theological system that is orderly and reliable. This…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part 5. Later Sasanian Times

      Jacob Neusner

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      An Introduction to Judaism: A Textbook and Reader

      Jacob Neusner

      Judaism is an ancient religion, practiced through most of recorded history and having profound influence on both Christianity and Islam. It is a modern religion, too, still transforming the lives…

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      The Christian and Judaic Invention of History

      The twelve articles in this book (five of them by editor Jacob Neusner) explore the background developments and motivating forces for what Neusner calls the re-invention of history in the…

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      Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 3: Judaism Before 70

      The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one…

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      Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 4: Judaism After 70 Other Greco-Roman Cults Bibliography

      The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one…

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      A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 1: Kelim: Chapters One Through Eleven

      The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam.
      From ‘A History of the Mishnaic Law of Appointed Times, Part 1’
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      A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 2: Kelim: Chapters Twelve Through Thirty

      The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam.
      From ‘A History of the Mishnaic Law of Appointed Times, Part 1’
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      A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 3: Kelim: Literary and Historical Problems

      The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam.
      From ‘A History of the Mishnaic Law of Appointed Times, Part 1’
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      Judaism When Christianity Began: A Survey of Belief and Practice

      Jacob Neusner

      In this book, Jacob Neusner gives an introductory, systematic, and holistic account of the theology and practice of Rabbinic Judaism, which emerged, along with Christianity, from antiquity and formed the…

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      A Short History of Judaism

      Jacob Neusner

      One of the world’s experts on classical Jewish history and literature offers an authoritative interpretation of the three major periods of Jewish history from the time of the Bible up…

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      Recovering Judaism: The Universal Dimension of Judaism

      Jacob Neusner

      The renewed perception of Judaism’s influenceJudaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms…

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      Abo Addresses and Other Recent Essays on Judaism in Time and Eternity

      Jacob Neusner

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      Reading and Believing

      Jacob Neusner

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