Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Fifth Series

Jacob Neusner

doi:10.5771/9780761852407

Summary

This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner periodically collects and publishes 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 prZcis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs, the comparative Midrash exercise, for example.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5239-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5240-7
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 132
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. 1. Resentment and Renewal: toward a Theory of the History of Judaism No access
2. 2. Restorationist Soteriology in Rabbinic Judaism No access
3. 3. Judaism: Tradition and Heritage No access
1. 4. Canonical Documents and Native Categories No access
2. 5. Canonical Narrative and the Documentary Hypothesis. From the Mishnah to the talmuds No access
3. 6. Sage-Stories in the two Talmuds: How the Documents Differ No access
4. 7. Explaining an Academic Commentary. A visual Recapitulation of Bavli Hullin as translated by tzvee zahavy No access
1. 8. Do Monotheist Religions Worship the Same God? A Perspective on Classical Judaism No access