Jacob Neusner

Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The canonical documents of Rabbinic Judaism impose upon most of their components fixed patterns of rhetoric, recurrent logic of coherent discourse, and a well-defined topic or program, for example, a commentary on a biblical book or on a legal topic. But some few compositions and composites of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity diverge from the formal norms of the compilations in which they occur. In these pages, Neusner assembles anomalous compositions that occur in the Mishnah, Tosefta, four Tannaite Midrashim, and Genesis Rabbah, and he further tests the uniformity of the forms that govern in a familiar chapter of the Bavli. Neusner's surveys show for the documents probed here that some small segment of the composites and compositions of the surveyed documents does not conform to the indicative rules of rhetoric, topic, and logic. Consequently, we face the challenge of constructing models of lost documents of the Rabbinic canon, conforming to the models governing anomalous compositions. These follow other topical and rhetorical norms and therefore belong in other, different types of documents from those in which they now are located. These anomalous writings in topic, logic, or rhetoric (or all three) in theory reveal indicative characteristics other than the ones defining the compositions and composites of the documents in which they are now located.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761891239
• Artikelnr.: 75143224

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
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Anomalous Compositions in the Mishnah, Abot, and the Tosefta
Chapter 4 2. Anomalous Compositions in Sifra and the Two Sifrés
Chapter 5 3. Anomalous Compositions in Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael
Chapter 6 4. Anomalous Compositions in Genesis Rabbah
Chapter 7 5. Norm and Anomaly: The Case of Bavli Moed Qatan Chapter One
Chapter 8 6. Epilogue