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Why This, Not That?

Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli

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Why This, Not That?

Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli

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This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others? The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the Halakhah, or law, of that Judaism? Second, can we account for the topics that the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli would introduce into the system, beyond the repertoire at the foundations defined by the analytical-topical hermeneutics that defines the normative category-formations? In answering the second question the book accounts for the analytical topics themselves. It defines the indicative traits that characterize all topical-analytical category-formations. Neusner claims to have identified the architectonics of the building, to know what holds the whole together, to account for the composition and the construction of the parts. These part or category-formations, all together, in proportion and in balance and sublimity seen whole on site, are Judaism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates
Chapter 3 Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Composites
Chapter 4 Beyond the Mishnah's Repertoire: Other Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Tosefta
Chapter 5 Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Yerushalmi
Chapter 6 Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's and the Yerushalmi's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Bavli
Chapter 7 Why This, Not That?

Product details

Published 29 Apr 2003
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 290
ISBN 9781461693833
Imprint University Press of America
Series Studies in Judaism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner is a leading figure in the American…

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