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      The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70, 3 Volumes

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      Overview Several generations of scholars have produced histories of Second Temple Judaism, but none have systematically analyzed the…

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      There We SAT Down: Talmudic Judaism in the Making

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Orthodox Judaism as it has been known through the medieval and modern world covers the period from approximately 100 B.C.E to 640 C.E. It was during this period that the…

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      Torah Through the Ages: A Short History of Judaism

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      This brief history of Judaism not only seeks to tell the story of Judaism (or of Judaisms) but to define it in such a way as to make it possible…

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      How To Grade Your Professors

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      A college professor tells students how to get the most out of college. Giving advice that reads like a personal letter to high school and college students, Professor Jacob Neusner…

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      First Century Judaism in Crisis

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      No generation in the history of Jewry has been so roundly, universally condemned by posterity as that of Yohanan ben Zakkai. A crisis was taking place in Palestine - a…

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      From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      While every history of ancient Judaism and Christianity gives a detailed picture of the Pharisees, none systematically and critically analyzes the traits and tendencies of the discrete sources combined to…

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      Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      Jews and Christians: The Myth of a Common Tradition

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      The Mishnah: Introduction and Reader

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      A leading scholar of the formative age and writings of Judaism here formulates a theory of the Mishnah (one of the earliest dated sources of Judaism): what it is, how…

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      Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Here is a sustained criticism of the rather facile use of rabbinic literature by New Testament scholarship. In particular, Neusner addresses the writings of Helmut Koester, Samuel Sandmel, Reginald Fuller…

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      The Talmud: A Close Encounter

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      For the uninitiated - and even for seasoned scholars - the Talmud is a daunting sea of literature. Jacob Neusner in this book offers guidance in approaching the rabbinic writings…

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      Introduction to American Judaism: What Books Say, What the People Do

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      The character of any religion as it is lived and practiced can be quite different from the prescriptions and ideals of its traditions and rituals. This bifurcation can be found…

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      The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70, Part I: The Masters

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      From The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70 AD (3 vols.)
      Overview Several generations of scholars have produced histories of Second Temple Judaism, but none have systematically analyzed the…

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      The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70, Part II: The Houses

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      Overview Several generations of scholars have produced histories of Second Temple Judaism, but none have systematically analyzed the…

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      The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70, Part III: Conclusions

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      From The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Before 70 AD (3 vols.)
      Overview Several generations of scholars have produced histories of Second Temple Judaism, but none have systematically analyzed the…

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      The Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism: The Haskell Lectures, 1972-1973

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus: The Tradition and the Man

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

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      Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and Feminine in the Dual Torah

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      America’s foremost scholar on formative Judaism examines the issue of gender as it appears in the corpus of rabbinic literature and arrives at some provocative conclusions. While the structure of…

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      Judaism and Scripture: The Evidence of Leviticus Rabbah

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      This groundbreaking work continues Jacob Neusner’s multi-volume examination of the main texts of Judaism in its formative years. The first two parts of the project–‘Judaism: The Evidence of the Yerushalmi’–examined…

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      The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      An eminent scholar of the history of Judaism, Jacob Neusner shows in this work how Judaism changed from a philosophy to a religion between 200 and 400 C.E. ‘The Transformation…

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      Confronting Creation: How Judaism Reads Genesis

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      By setting forth the book of Genesis as it is re-presented in the rabbinic statement Genesis Rabbah, Neusner demonstrates the way in which Judaism confronted creation and the Genesis story…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II: The Early Sasanian Period

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV: The Age of Shapur II

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      Form-Analysis and Exegesis: A Fresh Approach to the Interpretation of Mishnah with Special Reference to Mishnah-Tractate Makhshirin

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      About the Contributor(s): Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more…

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      What Is Midrash?

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      This book introduces Midrash both in general and through many examples of the kinds of Midrash that flourished among ancient Judaism. Neusner, as a preeminent authority on the subject, lays…

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      Telling Tales: Making Sense of Christian and Judaic Nonsense: The Urgency and Basis for Judeo-Christian Dialogue

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Instead of having dialogue, Christians and Jews have been exchanging monologues–parallel lines that never meet–because neither Christians nor Jews have viewed each other according to each other’s terms. Neusner proposes…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part 1: The Parthian Period

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part III: From Shapur I to Shapur II

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V: Later Sasanian Times

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      Fellowship in Judaism: The First Century and Today

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      These essays examine the sociology of Judaism in the last decades of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. The author discerns two kinds of religious fellowship, one constituted by the ‘haber’ (translated…

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      Between Time and Eternity: The Essentials of Judaism

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      This study of the history of Judaism is organized around the polarities of timelessness, change, eternity, and the historical present.

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      Judaism as Philosophy: The Method and the Message of the Mishnah

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament) and the foundation of the two Talmuds and of all Judaism…

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      Children of the Flesh, Children of the Promise: A Rabbi Talks with Paul

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      In this provocative follow-up to his enormously influential ‘ A Rabbi Talks with Jesus’, Jacob Neusner challenges the apostle Paul to debate the true meaning and significance of Judaism. Drawing…

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      Revelation: The Torah and the Bible

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island),Bruce D Chilton

      Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great traditions. The authors compare and contrast…

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      Law as Literature

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island)

      Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books…

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      God in the World

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island),Bruce D Chilton

      The authors address the issue of God in this world which, in the classical documents of formative Judaism, encompasses the diverse ways in which we meet God in the here…

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      Writing with Scripture: The Authority and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in the Torah of Formative Judaism

      Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner, PhD (Brown University Rhode Island),William Scott Green (University of Rochester New York)

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