Legacy of Learning

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College. William Scott Green is Professor of Religious Studies, Senior Vice Provost, and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Miami. Gary G. Porton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

• PrefaceIntroductionJacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning, William S. Green, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, Gary G. PortonThe Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis, Alan J. Avery-PeckWomen and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings, Judith R. Baskin“It is time to act for the Lord:” In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel, Craig A. EvansTent of Meeting as bet ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel, Paul V.M. FlesherTalmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis, Joel GereboffJudaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation, William Scott Green“The Weaver of Midrash in Performance:” Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim, Martin S. JaffeeThe “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It, Peter J. HaasIsraelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet 'Ajrud, Baruch A. LevineHow the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah, Gary G. PortonVarieties of Religious Visualizations, Tzvee ZahavyVayavo Ya’acov Shalem, Herbert BasserThe Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement, Bruce ChiltonEmbodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism, David KraemerJesus Talks Back, Amy-Jill LevineParting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner, Elliot R. WolfsonThe American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism:” Jacob Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism, Shaul MagidIntentionality and Meaning, Robert BerchmanAnother Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse, Th. Emil HomerinThe Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon, Aaron W. HughesTranscendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts, Roger Brooks

"The compilation of essays in Neusner’s honor is, among other things, a wonderful testament to his most important and innovative scholarly claims.” --Dov Weiss, The University of Illinois, RRJ 19 (2016) 147-172.