Overview

This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010–2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs.

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Author:   Jacob Neusner
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.159kg
ISBN:  

9780761857204

ISBN 10:   0761857206
Pages:   100
Publication Date:   20 December 2011
Recommended Age:   From 22 from 22
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source 2. History and Theology: Critically Recovering Rabbi Jesus 3. War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah 4. The Mishnah’s Conception of the Priesthood:The Aggadah versus the Halakhah 5. Rabbinic Theology: A System 6. Review Notes: Rosenblum, Jordan D. Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Cambridge 7. Review Notes: Shafran, Rabbi Simcha, Fire Ice Air. A Polish Jew’s Memoir of Yeshiva, Siberia, America. Staten Island

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Jacob Neusner is a leading figure in the American academic study of religion. He revolutionized the study of Judaism and brought it into the field of religion, and he built intellectual bridges between Judaism and other religions, thereby laying the groundwork for durable understanding and respect among religions. He has advanced the careers of younger scholars and teachers through his teaching and publication programs. Neusner’s influence on the study of Judaism and religion is broad, powerful, distinctive, and enduring.

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