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The Talmud is important because it sets forth the law and theology of Judaism in its authoritativ...

Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itse...

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the t...

This is a work of practical theology, a book not about Judaism but of Judaism. Talmud Torah does ...

In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks:How do you read a book that does...

This book seeks to discern how the Talmud transforms isolated facts into cogent and coherent cons...

This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mo...

In How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples, Jacob Neusner presents a collection o...

Judaism's two native categories, narrative theology and law (also known as parable and praxis or ...

This book expounds upon the Utopian vision of Rabbinic Judaism in its classical documents. Rabbin...

Judaism and Islam compare because they concur that God cares deeply not only about attitudes but ...

This book explores the theological premises of the documents upon which the Rabbinic canon was bu...

Unlike contemporary culture, Rabbinic Judaism's authoritative documents set forth the entire stru...

Facing a vast corpus of facts, the heirs of the Mishnah adopted analytical templates that transce...

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the t...

This is the third volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative ...

This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutic...

After publishing a number of books in the history, literature, social thought, history of religio...

In this sourcebook, author Jacob Neusner derives from details of legal expositions some of the Ha...

This work follows the single tractate, Moed Qatan, in its passage through the principal documents...

The role of the Golden Rule in various systems of thought, both religious and philosophical, invi...

This is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative ...

Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is n...

Here is an answer to the question, what do we learn about the Rabbinic system from its encounter ...

This collection of seven insightful essays draws on research completed in 2010. The book systemat...

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the t...

Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite soc...

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative ...

Of the documents in the Rabbinic canon that reached closure in late antiquity, the Fathers Accord...

Rabbinic Judaism affirms the Prophetic heritage and makes it its own. Indeed, the Rabbis of the f...

The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectiv...

Genesis Rabbah is the commentary on the book of Genesis produced by the Rabbinic sages of the fou...

The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. From 'A History of...

The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. From 'A History of...

'Trading Places' turns on its head the usual scholarly consensus that early Christianity and Rabb...

These essays were originally intended for presentation to Professor Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough on ...

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of...

Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume VI

This volume in 'An Essential Guide series consists of six chapters: - What Is Rabbinic Literature...

This is a study of the relationship between two cognate religious components of Judaism, the laws...

The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. From 'A History of...

The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. From 'A History of...

''While every history of ancient Judaism and Christianity gives a detailed picture of the Pharise...

The oldest of the world's major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that go...

Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the documentary hypothesis of the R...

In this provocative follow-up to his enormously influential ' A Rabbi Talks with Jesus', Jacob Ne...

The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. From 'A History of...