Collects how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. This book uses the case of Jeremiah in the... Læs mere
Facing a corpus of facts, the heirs of the "Mishnah" adopted analytical templates that transcended details and transformed the "Mishnah's" collection of topical expositions into a system of law. This book defines and classifies four analytical initiatives of the "Bavli".
This work follows the single tractate, Moed Qatan, in its passage through the principal documents of formative Judaism_the... Læs mere
In the "Mishnah", the "Tosefta", and the commentaries that joined them, the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however, is... Læs mere
Represents two years of work from 2003 to 2005 focused on the Rabbinic canon. This collection is divided into four... Læs mere
Deriving from details of legal expositions some of the Halakhah's theological propositions, this book aims to show how normative laws of conduct express the narrative... Læs mere
This book explores the theological premises of the documents upon which the Rabbinic canon was built and asks whether these premises cohere in a tight theological system? The Implicit Norms of Rabbinic Judaism examines these documents and their premise and reveals that orthodo...
The destruction of the First Temple (586 B.C.E.), destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), and the defeat of the Bar Kokhba (132-135 C.E.) are discussed in great detail in the covenantal theology of the Torah and Scripture. This books uses extensive textual evidence to expl...
Judaism's two native categories, narrative theology and law (also known as parable and praxis or Aggadah and Halakhah) form two distinct modes of discourse. The one expounds norms of attitude and belief, the other, norms of action and behavior. Each possesses its own modes of ...
After publishing a number of books in the history, literature, social thought, history of religion, and theology of formative Judaism, in the first six centuries C.E., Neusner explains the principal stages in the unfolding of his oeuvre.
Judaism in Monologue and Dialogue raises issues concerning the religious tradition of Judaism and the relationships between the communities of Judaism and those of Christianity.
Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itself as a triumph of... Læs mere