Research Catalog

Title

Chapters in the formative history of Judaism : current questions and enduring answers / Jacob Neusner.

Author

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2006.

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Details

Description

viii, 396 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Judaism

Uniform Title

Studies in Judaism.

Alternative Title

Current questions and enduring answers

Subject

• 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Geschichte 586 v. Chr.-210
• Rabbinical literature > History and criticism
• Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity
• Christianity and other religions > Judaism
• Jewish law > History
• Judaism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The vitality of rabbinic imagination: the MIshnah versus the Bible and Qumran: two comparisons -- Is scripture the origin of the Halakhah? -- How important was the destruction of the Second Temple in the formation of rabbinic Judaism? -- How pivotal is Yavneh in the history of Judaism? -- The kingdom of heaven in kindred systems, Judaic and Christian -- The Mishnah's conception of the priesthood: the Aggadah versus the Halakhah -- Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of tolerance? -- Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of altruism? -- A documentary reading of rabbinic compositions on 586, 70, and 132-135 in the formative canon -- Rabbinic literature and the Christian scriptures -- The divergent discourses of rabbinic Judaism: how halakhic and aggadic documents treat the bestiary common to them both -- Pirqé Abot read as a coherent theological statement -- The two stages in the formation of talmudic Judaism: the literary inquiry into a historical question -- Do types and forms yield a pre-history of the Bavli? Testing the results of Richard Kalmin -- The Second Temple origins of the Halakhah of Besah -- The integrity of the rabbinic law of purity (Mishnah-Tractate Tohorot) -- Judaism and the Hebrew language -- Talmudic dialectics -- [Book reviews.] Daniel Boyarin, Border lines: the partition of Judaeo-Christianity -- Joel M. Hoffman, In the beginning: a short history of the Hebrew language -- Maren Niehoff, Philo on Jewish identity and culture -- The oeuvre of Jonathan Z. Smith -- Amram Tropper, Wisdom, politics, and historiography: Tractate Avot in the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East -- Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Portrait of a villain: Laban the Aramean in rabbinic literature.

ISBN

• 0761833854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780761833857

LCCN

^^2005935826

OCLC

• 62557902
• SCSB-10806013

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library