| Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Fifth Series Contributor(s): Neusner, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761852395 ISBN-13: 9780761852391 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $43.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Sacred Writings - Religion | Judaism - Talmud |
| Dewey: 296 |
| Series: Studies in Judaism |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.50 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner periodically collects and publishes essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a pr cis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs, the comparative Midrash exercise, for example. |