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Author:   Alan Avery-Peck ,  Bruce D. Chilton ,  William Scott Green ,  Gary Porton
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9789004284272

ISBN 10:   9004284273
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   16 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Jacob Neusner's Legacy of Learning, William S. Green, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, Gary G. Porton The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis, Alan J. Avery-Peck Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner's Writings, Judith R. Baskin It is time to act for the Lord: In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel, Craig A. Evans Tent of Meeting as bet ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel, Paul V.M. Flesher Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis, Joel Gereboff Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation, William Scott Green The Weaver of Midrash in Performance: Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim, Martin S. Jaffee The Neusnerian Turn in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It, Peter J. Haas Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet 'Ajrud, Baruch A. Levine How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah, Gary G. Porton Varieties of Religious Visualizations, Tzvee Zahavy Vayavo Ya'acov Shalem, Herbert Basser The Platform of Mark's Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark's Achievement, Bruce Chilton Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism, David Kraemer Jesus Talks Back, Amy-Jill Levine Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner, Elliot R. Wolfson The American Jewish Holocaust Myth and Negative Judaism: Jacob Neusner's Contribution to American Judaism, Shaul Magid Intentionality and Meaning, Robert Berchman Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse, Th. Emil Homerin The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon, Aaron W. Hughes Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts, Roger Brooks

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The compilation of essays in Neusner's honor is, among other things, a wonderful testament to his most important and innovative scholarly claims. --Dov Weiss, The University of Illinois, RRJ 19 (2016) 147-172.

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Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College. William Scott Green is Professor of Religious Studies, Senior Vice Provost, and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Miami. Gary G. Porton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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