Jacob Neusner

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Sixth Series : More Essays on the History, Literature, and Theology of Judaism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of seven essays draws on work done in 2010. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaisms and deals with comparisons of Judaisms. The papers include two commentaries on the current state of the academic study of Judaism. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing 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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Judaism Nr.6
• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 201g
• ISBN-13: 9780761855910
• ISBN-10: 0761855912
• Artikelnr.: 33872051

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 Comparison and Classification of Systems of the
Social Order Chapter 3 The Social Vision of Rabbinic Judaism Chapter 4 The
Rabbis and the Prophets: The Case of Amos Chapter 5 The Messiah and the
Resurrection of the Dead Chapter 6 Resurrection in Rabbinic Judaism Part 7
Reflections on a Changing Scene Chapter 8 Fifty Years of Jewish Learning:
What has Changed and What Difference Does it Make? Chapter 9 Autobiography
of an Impresario: Encounters with Hershel Shanks