Jacob Neusner

Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition

The Documentary Approach to the Study of Formative Judaism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book responds to a question that came to the author from Professor Maren Niehoff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 'Have you written a simple introduction to your documentary theory and method, which can serve as a starting point for my students?'

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Judaism
• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780761838685
• ISBN-10: 0761838686
• Artikelnr.: 23139098

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 and 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 AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD 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

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Documentary Foundation
of Rabbinic Culture Chapter 4 How Documents Relate and Why It Matters
Chapter 5 Documents and Their Traits Form Analysis and the Documentary
History of Ideas Chapter 6 Extra- and Non-Documentary Writing in the
Rabbinic Canon of Late Antiquity Chapter 7 The Mishna's Extra-Documentary
Forms and Its Unpatterened Discourses Chapter 8 The Documentary Dimensions
of Talmudic Phenomenology Chapter 9 The Parable (Mashal) A Documentary
Approach Part 10 Appendix: Bibliography of Jacob Neusner

Rezensionen

This book clearly sets out in user-friendly fashion the principles underlying the vast research programme which has occupied Neusner for so many years. Students will certainly welcome, and benefit from, this compliation, which presents the reader with a carefully judged combination of theoretical discussion and worked examples of texts. Spring 2009