Mishnah

Jacob Neusner, Ph.D. (1960), Columbia University, is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College. In a remarkable career spanning more than 35 years, Professor Neusner has taught and conducted research at centers in North America, Asia and Europe including Dartmouth College, Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Cambridge University, the University of Göttingen and Uppsala University. Honored by awards from many of the world’s scholarly societies, his prodigious corpus of published work includes scores of seminal books and essays on Jewish life, law, ideas and tradition which have made him one of the most influential figures in his field in the modern period.

• 1. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S NATURAL HISTORYi. Aristotle's Natural Historyii. The Mishnah¹s List-Makingiii. The Mishnah¹s Principles of Classificationiv. Polythetic and Hierarchical Classificationv. The Genus and the Speciesvi. Principles of Speciationvii. The Many and the One, The One and the Manyviii. The Mishnah and Hierarchical Classificationix. Sifra¹s Critique of the Mishnah¹s ListenwissenschaftX. The Failure of Philosophy and the Beginning of Theology2. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S ECONOMICS i. Economicsii. The Marketplaceiii. Antique Economicsiv. Aristotlev. Ancient Israel: The Heritage of Scripturevi. The Mishnah¹s Market-Economics: The Householdvii. The Marketviii. Wealthix. The Mishnah's Distributive Economics: Householder, Market, Wealth3. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S POLITICSi. Politicsii. Politics within the Judaic Mythiii. Why Aristotle in Particular?iv. Aristotle's Politics and the Politics of the Mishnahv. The Mishnah's Politics of Hierarchization