Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism

Jacob Neusner

doi:10.5771/9780761852421

Summary

The canonical documents of Rabbinic Judaism impose upon most of their components fixed patterns of rhetoric, recurrent logic of coherent discourse, and a well-defined topic or program, for example, a commentary on a biblical book or on a legal topic. But some few compositions and composites of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity diverge from the formal norms of the compilations in which they occur. In these pages, Neusner assembles anomalous compositions that occur in the Mishnah, Tosefta, four Tannaite Midrashim, and Genesis Rabbah, and he further tests the uniformity of the forms that govern in a familiar chapter of the Bavli. Neusner's surveys show for the documents probed here that some small segment of the composites and compositions of the surveyed documents does not conform to the indicative rules of rhetoric, topic, and logic. Consequently, we face the challenge of constructing models of lost documents of the Rabbinic canon, conforming to the models governing anomalous compositions. These follow other topical and rhetorical norms and therefore belong in other, different types of documents from those in which they now are located. These anomalous writings in topic, logic, or rhetoric (or all three) in theory reveal indicative characteristics other than the ones defining the compositions and composites of the documents in which they are now located.

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Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5241-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5242-1
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 221
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. i. Formal Criteria for Differentiating Documents and their Compositions No access
2. ii. The Norms of the Mishnah No access
3. iii. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah: An Overview No access
4. iv. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
5. v. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked out Through Diverse Topics No access
6. vi. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah [3] Composites of Compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
7. vii. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah [4] Narratives No access
8. viii. Anomalous Mishnah-Tractates: Eduyyot, Tamid, Middot and Qinnim No access
9. ix. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by the Mishnah No access
10. x. The Norms of Abot No access
11. xi. The Norms of the Tosefta No access
12. xii. Anomalous Compositions in the Tosefta No access
13. xiii. Anomalous Compositions in the Tosefta [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
14. xiv. Anomalous Compositions in the Tosefta [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked Out Through Diverse Topics No access
15. xv. Anomalous Compositions in the Tosefta [3] Composites of compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
16. xvi. Anomalous Compositions in the Tosefta [4] Narratives No access
17. xvii. Anomalous Tosefta-Tractates: Tamid, Middot and Qinnim No access
18. xviii. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by the Tosefta No access
19. xix. Lost Documents? No access
1. i. The Norms of Sifra. An Overview No access
2. ii. Anomalous Compositions in the Sifra [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
3. iii. Anomalous Compositions in the Sifra [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked out Through Diverse Topics No access
4. iv. Anomalous Compositions in the Sifra [3] Composites of Compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
5. v. Anomalous Compositions in the Sifra [4] Narratives No access
6. vi. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by Sifra No access
7. vii. The Norms of Sifré to Numbers No access
8. viii. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Numbers [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
9. ix. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Numbers [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked Out Through Diverse Topics No access
10. x. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Numbers [3] Composites of Compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
11. xi. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Numbers [4] Narratives No access
12. xii. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by Sifré to Numbers No access
13. xiii. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Deuteronomy No access
14. xiv. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Deuteronomy [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
15. xv. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Deuteronomy [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked out Through Diverse Topics No access
16. xvi. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Deuteronomy [3] Composites of C1ompositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
17. xvii. Anomalous Compositions in Sifré to Deuteronomy [4] Narratives No access
18. xviii. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by Sifré to Deuteronomy No access
19. xix. Lost Documents? No access
1. i. The Norms of Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael No access
2. ii. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael No access
3. iii. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
4. iv. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked out Through Diverse Topics No access
5. v. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael [3] Composites of Compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
6. vi. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael [4] Narratives No access
7. vii. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated by Mekhilta Attributed to R Ishmael No access
8. viii. Lost Documents? No access
1. i. The Norms of Genesis Rabbah No access
2. ii. Anomalous Compositions in Genesis Rabbah [1] Composites of Miscellaneous Sayings in the Name of a Particular Sage No access
3. iii. Anomalous Compositions in Genesis Rabbah [2] Composites of Sayings on a Given Principle or Theme Worked out Through Diverse Topics No access
4. iv. Anomalous Compositions in Genesis Rabbah [3] Composites of Compositions Joined by a Common Rhetorical Pattern but not by a Common Proposition or Topic or the Name in Common of a Particular Sage No access
5. v. Anomalous Compositions in Genesis Rabbah [4] Narratives No access
6. vi. The Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism Adumbrated in Genesis Rabbah No access
1. i. The Norms of the Bavli: A Probe No access
2. ii. Visual Signals of Anomalous Compositions No access
3. iii. Recurrent Traits of the Bavli No access
4. iv. The Primary and Secondary Constituents of Bavli Moed Qatan Chapter One. Folios 2a-11a No access
5. v. The Construction of the Bavli and the Documentary Hypothesis No access
6. vi. Does the Bavli Contain Evidence of Lost Canonical Documents? No access
7. vii. The Canonical Question in Conclusion No access
6. Epilogue No access Pages 205 - 221