Jacob Neusner

The Transformation of Judaism (eBook, PDF)

From Philosophy to Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

An eminent scholar of the history of Judaism, Jacob Neusner shows in this work how Judaism changed from a philosophy to a religion between 200 and 400 C.E. 'The Transformation of Judaism' is a work both revolutionary in its method and unprecedented in its results. Comparing earlier and later sets of Judaic writings, Neusner sets forth how philosophy - abstract, elegant, orderly, and intellectual - turned into religion - tangible, down-to-earth, chaotic, and concrete. In the process, he offers an account of the birth of Judaism that has become normative. Moreover, Neusner's methodology can be applied to the study of religions other than Judaism because it examines the underpinnings of how a society sees the world (philosophy), orders itself (politics), and sustains itself (economics).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725211049
• Artikelnr.: 60107362

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 U.S. 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 TO THE FIRST EDITION Part 2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION,
REVISED Part 3 INTRODUCTION Part 4 THE RECEPTION OFTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM
Chapter 5 PROLOGUE TO PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL CATEGORIES Chapter 6 1. Modes
of Thought: From Philosophy to Religion Chapter 7 2. Scarce Resources:
Philosophical Economics Reproduced Chapter 8 3. Legitimate Violence: From
Hierarchized Foci to Unitary Focus ofPower Part 9 THE FORMATION
OFCOUNTERPART CATEGORIES Chapter 10 PROLOGUE TO PART TWO: COUNTERPART
CATEGORIES. CATEGORICAL REFORMATION ANDTHE NEW STRUCTURE Chapter 11 4.
Learning and the Category, "Torah" Chapter 12 5. The Transvaluation of
Value Chapter 13 6. Empowerment and the Category, "The People Israel" Part
14 ENCHANTED JUDAISM:THE NEW STRUCTURE Chapter 15 PROLOGUE TO PART THREE:
COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION OF SYSTEMS Chapter 16 7. The New Learning:
The Gnostic Torah Chapter 17 8. The New Order: The Political Economy of
Zekhut Chapter 18 9. Enchanted Judaism and The City of God Part 19
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