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Jacob Neusner
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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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 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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The questions Jacob Neusner has asked have shaped how scholars today approach the rabbinic literature. These essays honor that legacy, addressing topics in early Judaism, Judaism’s relationship to Christianity and…
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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 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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
This concise yet comprehensive volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism.
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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’This volume…
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…
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…
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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