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.

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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