Why this, not that? : ways not taken in the halakhic category-formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli / Jacob Neusner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Series:

Studies in Judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Interpretation and construction.

Jewish law.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Summary:

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?

Contents:

1. Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates 1

i. Abot and Eduyyot 2

ii. Tamid 15

iii. Middot 34

iv. Qinnim 49

v. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates 58

2. Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Composites 61

i. The First Division 62

ii. The Second Division 63

iii. The Third Division 84

iv. The Fourth Division 89

v. The Fifth Division 89

vi. The Sixth Division 95

vii. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation in the Mishnah 106

b. The Theory of Topical/Not Analytical Category-Formations 108

c. The Theory of Analytical/Not Topical Category 109

d. The Theory of Historical-Circumstantial Category-Formations 110

ix. Why This, Not That? 111

3. Beyond the Mishnah's Repertoire: Other Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Tosefta 113

i. Dependency and Autonomy in the Tosefta in Relationship to the Mishnah 113

ii. The First Division 117

iii. The Second Division 124

iv. The Third Division 128

v. The Fourth Division 128

vi. The Fifth Division 136

vii. The Sixth Division 143

viii. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation in the Tosefta: Summary 165

d. Beyond the Mishnah's Repertoire 152

ix. The Tosefta's Judgment of the Mishnah's Repertoire of Category-Formations 152

4. Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Yerushalmi 155

i. The Two Talmuds 155

ii. The Construction of the Yerushalmi and the Topical Composite 156

iii. The First Division 157

iv. The Second Division 163

v. The Third Division 163

vi. The Fourth Division 169

vii. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation in the Yerushalmi 169

viii. The Yerushalmi's Judgment of the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Repertoire of Category-Formations 170

5. Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's and the Yerushalmi's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Bavli 171

i. The Bavli's Miscellaneous Composites 171

ii. Berakhot and the Second Division 174

iii. The Third Division 196

iv. The Fourth Division 201

v. The Fifth Division and Niddah 212

vi. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation in the Bavli 235

a. Fresh Topical-Analytical Category-Formations 235

b. Topical-Not-Analytical Category-Formations 236

c. Analytical-Not-Topical Category-Formations 237

d. Historical-Circumstal Category-Formations 237

e. Beyond Mishnah's Repertoire 238

vii. The Bavli's Judgment of the Received Repertoire of Category-Formations 239

viii. The Minor Tractates "of the Talmud" 240

6. Why This, Not That? 243

i. Unrealized Theories of Category-Formation 244

a. The Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates 244

b. The Mishnah's Anomalous Composites 244

c. The Tosefta's Anomalous Composites 245

d. The Yerushalmi's Anomalous Composites 245

e. The Bavli's Anomalous Composites 245

f. The Four Plausible Theories of Category-Formation and the One that Was Chosen 246

ii The Expansion of the Halakhic System: New Topical or Analytical Category-Formations 257

a. The Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates 257

b. The Mishnah's Anomalous Composites 258

1. New Topics 258

2. New Propositions or Analytical Principles 258

c. The Tosefta's Anomalous Composites 258

2. New Propositions or Analytical Principles 259

d. The Yerushalmi's Anomalous Composites 259

1. New Topics 259

2. New Propositions or Analytical Principles 260

e. The Bavli's Anomalous Composites 260

1. New Topics 260

2. New Propositions or Analytical Principles 261

f. The Rules of Choosing Topics 261

iii Why This Not That? The Premises and Goals of the Halakhah 265.

ISBN:

0761825258

OCLC:

51936944