Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner periodically collects and publishes essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs, the comparative Midrash exercise, for example.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 On the History of Judaism Chapter 3 1. Resentment and Renewal: Toward a Theory of the History of Judaism Chapter 4 2. Restorationist Soteriology in Rabbinic Judaism Chapter 5 3. Judaism: Tradition and Heritage Part 6 On the Literature of Judaism: Canon and Category Chapter 7 4. Canonical Documents and Native Categories Chapter 8 5. Canonical Narrative and the Documentary Hypothesis: From the Misnah to the Talmuds Chapter 9 6. Sage-Stories in the Two Talmuds: How the Documents Differ Chapter 10 7. Explaining an Academic Commentary: A Visual Recapitulation of Bavli Hullin as Translated by Tzvee Zahavy Part 11 On the Theology of Judaism Chapter 12 8. Do Monotheist Religions Worship the Same God? A Perspective on Classical Judaism
