Research Catalog

Title

Are there really Tannaitic parallels to the Gospels? : a refutation of Morton Smith / by Jacob Neusner.

Author

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xiii, 186 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

South Florida studies in the history of Judaism ; no. 80

Uniform Title

South Florida studies in the history of Judaism ; 80.

Subject

• Smith, Morton, 1915-1991
• Smith, Morton 1915-1991
• Smith, Morton
• Smith, Morton Howison, 1915-1991
• Bible. > Language, style
• Bible. > Extra-canonical parallels
• Tosefta > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Mishnah > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible
• Mishnah
• Tosefta
• Bibel
• New Testament. > Extra-canonical parallels
• New Testament. > Language, style
• Bible. > Langue, style
• Rabbinical literature > Relation to the New Testament
• Tannaim
• 11.47 cultural-historical background of the New Testament
• Language and languages > Style
• Extra-canonical parallels
• Rabbinical literature > Relation to the New Testament
• Tannaim
• Evangeliën
• Misjna
• Tannaïm
• Halakhic Midrashim > History and criticism
• Littérature rabbinique > Relations avec le Nouveau Testament
• Tosefta
• Michna > Critique, interprétation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Smith's Alleged Parallels: Much Ado about Not Much. I. Why Reread a Forty-Year-Old Dissertation. II. Know-Nothings, Fundamentalists, and Morton Smith. III. Time to Reexamine Smith's Altogether-Too-Secret "Secret Gospel"? IV. The Lesser Theses of Smith's Tannaitic Parallels. 1. Verbal Parallels. 2. Parallels of Idiom. 3. Parallels of Meaning. 4. Parallels of Literary Form. 5. Parallels in Types of Association. 6. Complete Parallels. 7. Parallels of Parallelism. 8. Parallels with a Fixed Difference. V. Much Ado about Not Much. VI. For This, a Ph. D.? -- 2. Parallels of Parallelism: Smith's Statement of His Thesis -- 3. The Character of the Tosefta -- 4. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [1]: The Tosefta as a Commentary to the Mishnah -- 5. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [2]: The Tosefta as a Complement to the Mishnah -- 6. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [3]: The Tosefta as a Supplement to the Mishnah.
• 7. Are There Really Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels? I. Did Morton Smith Understand the Relationship between the Mishnah and the Tosefta? II. Smith's Conceptual Bungling. III. The Relationship between the Tosefta and the Mishnah and the Synoptic Problem. IV. Do Any Documents in Rabbinic Literature Draw on the Equivalent of a Q? V. Do Any Documents in Rabbinic Literature Give Evidence of a Shared Protocol of Exegesis or Common Convention Governing the Selection and Arrangement of Data? VI. What, Today, Is to Be Learned from the Career of Morton Smith? -- Appendix One: Smith's Legacy of Conceptual Bungling: The Case of Lee I. Levine -- Appendix Two: Smith's Legacy of Selective Fundamentalism in the Writing of S.J.D. Cohen: Believing Whatever You Like.

ISBN

• 1555408672
• 9781555408671

LCCN

93007554

OCLC

• ocm27812726
• 27812726
• SCSB-1992805

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library