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Description

After publishing a number of books in the history, literature, social thought, history of religion, and theology of formative Judaism, in the first six centuries C.E., Neusner explains the principal stages in the unfolding of his oeuvre. He introduces the documentary reading of the canonical components, one by one. He proceeds to the description, analysis, and interpretation of religious systems that comprise Rabbinic Judaism. He then sets forth the documentary history of the formation of Rabbinic Judaism in antiquity, its transformation from a philosophical to a religious system for Israel?s social order. From that diachronic perspective turns to the generative logic that transcends the diachronic narrative and imposes synchrony upon the whole. That marks a shift to a synchronic perspective, now spelling out the theological outcome of the entire venture: how the whole holds together in a coherent and logical way.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Bibliography of Jacob Neusner
Chapter 4 History
Chapter 5 Literature
Chapter 6 Religion
Chapter 7 History of Religion
Chapter 8 Theology

Product details

Published 26 Sep 2005
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 348
ISBN 9781461685791
Imprint University Press of America
Series Studies in Judaism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner is a leading figure in the American…

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