Jacob Neusner

The Midrash

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781568213576
• ISBN-10: 1568213573
• Artikelnr.: 21055734

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

Table of Contents Preface ix Prologue 1 PART 1 The Second and Third-Century
Compilations The Tannaite Midrashim 1. Exodus and Mekhilta Attributed to R.
Ishmael 31 2. Leviticus and Sifra 56 3. Numbers and Sifré to Numbers 76 4.
Deuteronomy and Sifré to Deuteronomy 107 PART II The Fourth and
Fifth-Century Compilations The Earlier Rabbah Midrashim 5. Genesis and
Genesis Rabbah 141 PART III The Sixth and Seventh-Century Compilations The
Later Rabbah Midrashim 6. Ruth and Ruth Rabbah 173 7. Song of Songs and
Song of Songs Rabbah 197 Bibliography of Midrash Studies by Jacob Neusner
221 Index 231