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The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters
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2012
Summary
The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems emerge from time to time as the work proceeds. In the recent past, Neusner has continued to explore special problems of the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon. At the same time, Neusner notes, others join in the discussion that have produced important and ambitious analyses of the thesis and its implications. Here, Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the hypothesis and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Green for the Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition, as Green places the documentary hypothesis into the context of Neusner's entire oeuvre. Neuser then reproduces what he regards as the single most successful venture of the documentary hypothesis, contrasting between the Mishnah's and the Talmuds' programs for the social order of Israel, the doctrines of economics, politics, and philosophy set forth in those documents, respectively. Then come the two foci of discourse: Halakhah or normative law and Aggadah or normative theology. Professors Bernard Jackson of the University of Manchester, England and Mayer Gruber of Ben Gurion University of the Negev treat the Halakhic program that Neusner has devised, and Kevin Edgecomb of the University of California, Berkeley, has produced a remarkable summary of the theological system Neusner discerns in the Aggadic documents. Neusner concludes with a review of a book by a critic of the documentary hypothesis.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4978-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4979-7
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Prologue: Introducing Jacob Neusner No access
1: The Documentary History of Judaism: The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism: From the Mishnah's Philosophy to the Talmud's Religion No access Pages 1 - 20
2: On Neusner's Theology of Halakhah No access Pages 21 - 46
3: Neusner's Halakhic Theology. A Sourcebook No access Pages 47 - 52
4: An Appreciation and Precis of Jacob Neusner's Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God No access Pages 53 - 156
5: Karin Hedner Zetterholm, A Recent Critic of The Documentary Hypothesis No access Pages 157 - 162
Jacob Neusner's Bibliography No access Pages 163 - 250
