This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Jacob Neusner surveys the presentation of the prophets by the rabbis, beginning with
This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011–?2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology.
Rabbinic documents about David, progenitor of the Messiah, relay the scriptural narrative of David the king. But, he is also transformed into a sage by Rabbinic writings of late antiquity: the Mishnah
This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010–2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology.
This book recapitulates chapters in The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God (1999) and The Theology of the Halakhah (2001) to convey, as a single continuous narrative, the tale th
Here is an answer to the question, what do we learn about the Rabbinic system from its encounter with the Prophetic books? This book analyzes the way in which Rabbinic Judaism in its formative canon r
Neusner (history and theology of Judaism, Bard College, New York) addresses the hypothesis that Rabbinic Judaism in its normative canon, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, represents a continuation a
In this second of two volumes, Neusner (history and theology of Judaism, Bard College, New York) continues tracing how the message of Isaiah passed from its original source into the various languages
The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They commen
In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought abo
In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought abo
Neusner (Bard College) offers here a narrative of his work on the history, literature, social thought, history of religion, and theology of Judaism that he has presented over many years and many volum
In the second of three volumes, Neusner (religion and theology, Bard College) shows how the classifications he identified in the first volume combine and recombine in sentences to signify relationship
In this book the author, a recognized authority on Jewish life and thought, poses the question, 'How are we to think about the social and political setting for our religious and ethnic life as Jewish
The well-known commentator from Bard College continues his glossing of the principal rabbinic Midrash documents of formative Judaism by placing them in relationship to the canon as a whole. To make po
As a canonical document of formative Judaism, the Pesquita deRab Kahana (PRK) sets forth Rabbinic interpretations of the liturgical calendar consulted in the scheduling of weddings and other life cycl
Distinguished historian of Judaism Jacob Neusner here ventures for the first time into constructive theology. Taking the everyday life of contemporary Judaism as his beginning, Neusner asks when in th
