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Jacob Neusner

(Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion : collected works, . Neusner on Judaism ; 2)

Ashgate, c2005

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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 corpus of the Rabbinic literature of the formative period.

Table of Contents

  • Theoretical problems - The synoptic problem in Rabbinic literature - The cases of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Sifra and Leviticus Rabbah
  • The synoptic problem in Rabbinic literature - The case of Leviticus Rabbah
  • Intertextuality in Judaism
  • The Rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees before 70 - The problem of oral transmission
  • Multiple versions of a saying or story - The development of the Merkavah tradition
  • From exegesis to fable in the Rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees
  • When tales travel - The interpretation of multiple appearances of a single saying or story in Talmudic literature
  • Form-analysis and exegesis - Types and forms in Ancient Jewish literature
  • Some comparisons
  • Form-analysis and exegesis - The case of Mishnah Parah Chapter Three
  • The documentary form-history of Rabbinic literature
  • The Aggadic sector
  • The Mishnah - Form and meaning in Mishnah
  • The Mishnah's philosophical method - The Judaism of hierarchical classification in Greco-Roman context
  • Dating a Mishnah-Tractate - the case of Tamid
  • Leviticus Rabbah - Judaism and scripture - The case of Leviticus Rabbah
  • Appropriation and imitation - The priority of Leviticus Rabbah over Pesiqta derab Kahana
  • The Talmuds - Why there never was a "Talmud of Caesarea" - Saul Lieberman's blunders
  • The Talmud of Babylonia - system or tradition? A reprise of seven monographs
  • The riddle of the Bavli - a literary-analytical solution
  • A reprise of six monographs
  • The structure and system of Babylonian Talmud Horayot
  • Foreword to Abraham Cohen, Everyman's Talmud
  • The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
  • Rabbinic narratives, document by document - Rabbinic narrative - Documentary perspectives on the sage-story in The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan Text A
  • Rabbinic narrative - documentary perspectives on the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Maoeasim
  • Rabbinic narrative - Documentary perspectives on the authentic narrative in Lamentations Rabbah
  • Logics of Rabbinic literature - Translating Rabbinic literature - The logics of Rabbinic literature
  • Translation and paraphrase - The differences and why they matter.

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