Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Halakhic Midrashim
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Components of the Rabbinic Documents: Genesis Rabbah (6 pts.)
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Halakhic Midrashim
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Components of the Rabbinic Documents: Genesis Rabbah (6 pt.)
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Halakhic Midrashim
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Documentary Form-history of Rabbinic Literature: The halakhic sector, the Talmud of Babylonia (6 v.)
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rabbinical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852417
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The canonical documents of Rabbinic Judaism impose upon most of their components fixed patterns of rhetoric, recurrent logic of coherent discourse, and a well-defined topic or program, for example, a commentary on a biblical book or on a legal topic. But some few compositions and composites of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity diverge from the formal norms of the compilations in which they occur. In these pages, Neusner assembles anomalous compositions that occur in the Mishnah, Tosefta, four Tannaite Midrashim, and Genesis Rabbah, and he further tests the uniformity of the forms that govern in a familiar chapter of the Bavli. Neusner's surveys show for the documents probed here that some small segment of the composites and compositions of the surveyed documents does not conform to the indicative rules of rhetoric, topic, and logic. Consequently, we face the challenge of constructing models of lost documents of the Rabbinic canon, conforming to the models governing anomalous compositions. These follow other topical and rhetorical norms and therefore belong in other, different types of documents from those in which they now are located. These anomalous writings in topic, logic, or rhetoric (or all three) in theory reveal indicative characteristics other than the ones defining the compositions and composites of the documents in which they are now located.
Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592445195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Here is a sustained criticism of the rather facile use of rabbinic literature by New Testament scholarship. In particular, Neusner addresses the writings of Helmut Koester, Samuel Sandmel, Reginald Fuller, Harvey Falk, Geza Vermes, E.P. Sanders, S.J.D. Cohen, Morton Smith, John P. Meier, and Brad H. Young. The book begins with a study of the characteristics of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of why this literature cannot be easily used for the kind of history New Testament scholarship proposes to produce. Then follow critiques of the writings by various New Testament scholars and the differences between Professor Neusner and his critics. A concluding section pays tribute to the New Testament field for all it has taught the author.
Judaism and Scripture
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725208369
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This groundbreaking work continues Jacob Neusner's multi-volume examination of the main texts of Judaism in its formative years. The first two parts of the project--'Judaism: The Evidence of the Yerushalmi'--examined the Mishnah and the Talmud of the Land of Israel and placed them in the social, intellectual, and religious contexts of their time. In 'Judaism and Scripture' Neusner moves from the study of ancient Judaism in society at large to an analysis of Rabbinic Judaism in relation to Scripture itself. Neusner accomplishes this both through close analysis and through the first English translation of the critical text of the Leviticus Rabbah. Tracing the relationship between the actual Book of Leviticus and its rabbinic commentary, Neusner asks how the rabbis who stand behind the text make use of Leviticus and how, through their comments on it, they make intelligible and comprehensible statements of their own. In answering these two questions Neusner shows, through a prime example, exactly how Scripture enters Judaism and how rabbis of the formative age of Judaism chose and taught the lessons they deemed critical to the life of Israel, the Jewish people.
The Midrash of the Messiah
Author: Risto SantalaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789654471190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book responds to a question that came to the author from Professor Maren Niehoff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 'Have you written a simple introduction to your documentary theory and method, which can serve as a starting point for my students?' In this book are gathered eight of the more fundamental items of documentary theory and practice_three in theory, five in practice_for Professor Neihoff's students and anyone else who takes an interest in the formative history of Judaism. The documentary thesis of Rabbinic literature holds that the document_the Mishnah, Sifra, Lamentations, Rabbah, the Bavli, for example_forms the basic building block of the Rabbinic tradition. Excluded by that definition are sayings attributed to, and stories told about, named sages. These cannot serve in the reconstruction of the Rabbinic tradition, its literature, history, religion, and theology.
The Native Category-formations of the Aggadah: The later midrash-compilations
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aggada
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Unity of Rabbinic Discourse: Halakhah and aggadah in concert
Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Viewed as ideal types, the Halakhah defines the norm, setting forth what is obligatory, the Aggadah, specifies what exceeds the norm and goes beyond the measure of the law. The striking differences of style and substance that differentiate the two categories of discourse present the question of how they intersect in a single coherent statement, a system that holds together its two distinct media of thought and expression. When we have in hand systematic data on how Aggadah contributes to the Halakhah, and where Halakhah serves the purposes of the Aggadah, we find possible the logical next step: where do the two intersect, and at what points do the respective complexes of category-formations stand autonomous of one another, and that leads to the question: how do Aggadah and Halakhah constitute a coherent religious structure and make in common a single systemic statement? Where, within the formative literature of Normative Judaism, they join together, what affect the one exercises upon the other, and how the whole - Rabbinic Judaism - exceeds and transcends the sum of the parts - the Halakhah, the Aggadah - is spelled out.