The Reader's Guide to the Talmud

2001
 |  Religion
The Reader's Guide to the Talmud

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004121870

Category: Religion

Page: 416

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This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) answers basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing? Turning to questions of modes of thought, the account proceeds to address the intellectual character of the Bavli and in particular the character and uses of its dialectics. Finally, questions of substance come to the fore: how does the Talmud relate to the Torah? and how does tradition enter in? These basic questions of rhetoric, topic, and logic that anyone approaching the text will raise are dealt with clearly and authoritatively.

Jerusalem and Athens

2021-11-22
 |  Religion
Jerusalem and Athens

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004497979

Category: Religion

Page: 182

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Neusner shows in this original study how philosophy, specifically, dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Talmud of Babylonia's Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical presentations, or tractates, of the Mishnah.

Three Questions of Formative Judaism

2021-10-01
 |  Religion
Three Questions of Formative Judaism

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004494190

Category: Religion

Page: 286

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The academic study of Judaism requires a systematic inquiry into the history, literature, and religion—and eventually the theology—as revealed in the historical documents themselves. This book contextualizes the canonical writings of Judaism and analyzes their literary character as a basis for understanding the theology of formative Judaism. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters

2012-07-10
 |  Religion
The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: University Press of America

ISBN: 9780761849797

Category: Religion

Page: 262

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Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Free for Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition, as Green places the documentary hypothesis into the context of Neusner's entire oeuvre.

The Book of Jewish Wisdom

2001
 |  Religion
The Book of Jewish Wisdom

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: Global Academic Publishing

ISBN: 1586841181

Category: Religion

Page: 334

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Presents parts of the Judaic tradition of wisdom, concentrating on the oral part of the Torah, represented by the documents of law and scriptural exegesis.

The Talmud

2006
 |  Talmud
The Talmud

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 0742546713

Category: Talmud

Page: 182

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Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations. A single book explains how this came about--the Talmud. By re-framing the Torah through sustained argument and analysis, the Talmud encourages the reader to actively apply reason and practice logic. Renowned scholar Jacob Neusner introduces readers to the Talmud, defining it, explaining its historical context, and illustrating why it remains relevant today. Neusner's The Talmud: What It Is and What It Says invites readers to engage with the text, and emphasizes that the Talmud will continue to be an important cultural guidebook for Jewish life through the next millennium.