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 précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs, the comparative Midrash exercise, for example.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-07-15
Mått154 x 233 x 11 mm
Vikt222 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Judaism
Antal sidor140
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761852391

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The real measure of Jacob Neusner's contribution to the study of religion emerges from the originality, excellence, and scope of his learning. He founded a field of scholarship: the academic study of Judaism. He built out of that field to influence a larger subject: the academic study of religion. He created durable networks and pathways of interreligious communication and understanding. And he cared for the careers of others. Ever generous with his intellectual gifts, Neusner is one of America's greatest humanists. In all aspects of his career, he exemplifies the meaning of American learning. In all he has done, Jacob Neusner fulfills the distinctive promise of the academic study of religion in an open and pluralistic society that values religion as a fundamental expression of freedom. -from the Encyclopaedia Judaica, second edition

Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 On the History of JudaismChapter 3 1. Resentment and Renewal: Toward a Theory of the History of JudaismChapter 4 2. Restorationist Soteriology in Rabbinic JudaismChapter 5 3. Judaism: Tradition and HeritagePart 6 On the Literature of Judaism: Canon and CategoryChapter 7 4. Canonical Documents and Native CategoriesChapter 8 5. Canonical Narrative and the Documentary Hypothesis: From the Misnah to the TalmudsChapter 9 6. Sage-Stories in the Two Talmuds: How the Documents DifferChapter 10 7. Explaining an Academic Commentary: A Visual Recapitulation of Bavli Hullin as Translated by Tzvee ZahavyPart 11 On the Theology of JudaismChapter 12 8. Do Monotheist Religions Worship the Same God? A Perspective on Classical Judaism