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Book SynopsisThe result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems emerge from time to time as the work proceeds. In the recent past, Neusner has continued to explore special problems of the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon. At the same time, Neusner notes, others join in the discussion that have produced important and ambitious analyses of the thesis and its implications. Here, Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the hypothesis and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Green for the Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition, as Green places the documentary hypothesis into the context of Neusner''s entire oeuvre. Neuser then reproduces what he regards as the single most successful venture of the documentary hypo
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Prologue: Introducing Jacob Neusner Chapter 3 1. The Documentary History of Judaism: The Formation of Rabbinic Judaism from the Mishnah's Philosophy to the Talmud's Religion Part 4 Three Responses: Systematic Statements of Judaism Chapter 5 2. On Neusner's Theology of Halakhah Chapter 6 3. Neusner's Halahic Theology: A Source Book Chapter 7 4. An Appreciation and Précis of Jacob Neusner's Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God Chapter 8 5. Karin Hedner Zetterholm, A Recent Critic of the Documentary Hypothesis Chapter 9 Jacob Neusner's Bibliography
