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(Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion : collected works, . Neusner on Judaism ; 1)
Ashgate, c2004
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Jacob Neusner's three volumes on Judaism reflect the enormous breadth and depth of Judaic religion, theology, literature and history. This volume explores the formation of normative Judaism as set forth in scripture by the Rabbinic documents of late antiquity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Introducing the scholar - From history to religion
- History in formative Judaism - Organizing the past
- The conception of history in formative Judaism
- History and purity in first century Judaism
- Problems of historical method - New problems, new solutions
- Current events in Rabbinic studies
- Judaism in Late Antiquity
- Review essay
- Jews and Judaism under Iranian rule - bibliographical reflections
- The Rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees in modern historiography
- The history of earlier Rabbinic Judaism - some new approaches
- The Talmud as history
- Evaluating the attributions of sayings to named sages in the Rabbinic literature
- The documentary history of Judaism and the problem of dating sayings
- Beyond historicism, after structuralism - story as history in Ancient Judaism
- Max Weber revisited - Religion and society in ancient Judaism with special reference to the late 1st and 2nd centuries
- Notes on Goodenough's Jewish symbols
- When intellectual paradigms shift - does the end of the old mark the beginning of the new?
- The Jerusalem School and Western, academic scholarship on the history of Judaism - the uneven conflict of competing contemporary paradigms of learning and the recent results
- Historical studies - Jewry in the Land of Israel - Pre-70 Pharisaism
- Two pictures of the Pharisees - philosophical circle or eating club
- Judaism in a time of crisis - four responses to the destruction of the Second Temple
- "Pharisaic-Rabbinic" Judaism - a clarification
- From enemy to sibling
- Rome and Israel in the first century of Western civilization
- Historical studies - Jewry in Iranian Babylonia - Politics and theology in Talmudic Babylonia
- Babylonian Jewry and Shapur II's persecution of Christianity from 339 to 379 AD
- Archaeology and Babylonian Jewry
- How much Iranian in Jewish Babylonia?.
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