Jacob Neusner

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism (eBook, ePUB)

Fifth Series

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761852407
• Artikelnr.: 38228994

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner is a leading figure in the American academic study of religion. He revolutionized the study of Judaism and brought it into the field of religion, and he built intellectual bridges between Judaism and other religions, thereby laying the groundwork for durable understanding and respect among religions. He has advanced the careers of younger scholars and teachers through his teaching and publication programs. Neusner's influence on the study of Judaism and religion is broad, powerful, distinctive, and enduring.

Inhaltsangabe

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