Jacob Neusner

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Second Series

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008. Included are Halakhic essays, essays on Classical Judaism, and two literary studies. Five book reviews conclude the collection, one of them a review essay, covering Edward Kaplan's two volumes on Abraham J. Heschel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780761844013
• ISBN-10: 0761844015
• Artikelnr.: 25692625

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1. The Halakhic Category Formations of Normative Judaism: Why
this, not that, in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli?
Chapter 2 2. Religious Jurisprudence in Judaism; The Halakhic Theology Seen
Whole: Actualizing the Torah's Story
Chapter 3 3. The Religious Meaning of the Torah
Chapter 4 4. Is Judaism a traditional Religion?
Chapter 5 5. The Golden Rule in Classical Judaism
Chapter 6 6. Divine Love in Classical Judaism
Chapter 7 7. Why No Science in Judaism?
Chapter 8 8. Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?
Chapter 9 9. Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis
Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavlii Tractate Moed Qatan
Chapter 10 10. Is the Yerushalmi Constructed in Accord with Analytical
Templates?
Chapter 11 11. Gabriele Boccaccini, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An
Intellectual History, From Ezekial to Daniel
Chapter 12 12. Bruce Chilton, Abraham's Curse: Child Sacrifice in the
Legacies of the West
Chapter 13 13. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua
Heschel: Prophetic Witness. Edward Kaplan, Spiritual Radical: Abraham
Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
Chapter 14 14. Jonathan Sacks, The Home We Build Together: Recreating
Society
Chapter 15 15. Jonathan Cohen,Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttman
and Strauss on the History of Jewish Philosophy