Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavil or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. The Mishnah Chapter 3 2. The Tosefta Chapter 4 3. Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael Chapter 5 4. Sifré to Numbers Chapter 6 5. Sifré to Deuteronomy Chapter 7 6. Genesis Rabbah Chapter 8 7. Leviticus Rabbah Chapter 9 8. Pesiqta DeRab Kahana Chapter 10 9. The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Chapter 11 10. The Talmud of the Land of Israel Chapter 12 11. The Talmud of Babylonia
