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The Religious Study of Judaism
The first in a series to study religion by description, analysis and interpretation. This book uses Judaism as an example of the importance, for all learning, of the circumstances …
The Religious Study of Judaism
A collection of essays that illustrate the issue of definition and the role of context in the study of a religion, its text and its ideas. The author first addresses an important …
Israel's Politics in Sasanian Iran
This book surveys the references to a Jewish government in writings concerning Babylonian Jewry in late antiquity. It draws together the diverse sources that tell stories about the …
New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism
Continues the study of ancient Judaism by academic methods. This volume includes, by chapter descriptions: Galatians (1:1-5): Paul and Greco-Roman Rhetoric; Text as Interpretation: …
Canon and Connection
Raises the contemporary issue of intertextuality, while analyzing the canonical writings of Judaism. These writings provide an ideal example of the meaning and uses of the critical …
Theology in Action
While in contemporary culture we tend to resort to a single, if broadly defined, range of discourse for the results of systematic thought about public matters of the social order, …
Amos in Talmud and Midrash
In the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Rabbis of formative Judaism, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, consulted the ancient Israelite prophets for guidance on issues …
Struggle for the Jewish Mind
Noted scholar Jacob Neusner records skirmishes in an ongoing battle within the field of Judaic Studies between ethnic and academic scholars. On the one side, Neusner argues, ethnic …
First Principles of Systemic Analysis:
Jacob Neusner, a leading scholar of Judaism, offers a provocative statement on methodology in this history of religion. Neusner offers initial generalizations, or 'first …
The Implicit Norms of Rabbinic Judaism
Implicit norms of law and theology governed in Rabbinic Judaism from the onset of its canon in the Mishnah (concluded at ca. 200) to its climax in the Talmud of Babylonia four …
Rabbi Jeremiah
This analysis of how the Rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash made Jeremiah one of their own shows how Rabbinic Judaism rehearses the Prophetic message. Jeremiah offered hope to renew …
Hosea in Talmud and Midrash
In the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Rabbis of formative Judaism, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, consulted the ancient Israelite prophets for guidance on issues …