Chapters in the formative history of Judaism : sixth series : more essays on the history, literature, and theology of Judaism / Jacob Neusner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Series:

Studies in Judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 109 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

More essays on the history, literature, and theology of Judaism

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2011]

Summary:

This collection of seven essays draws on work done in 2010. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaisms and deals with comparisons of Judaisms. The papers include two commentaries on the current state of the academic study of Judaism.

The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of mono graphs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a precis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs. Book jacket.

Contents:

Comparison and classification of systems of the social order

The social vision of rabbinic Judaism

The rabbis and the prophets: the case of Amos

The messiah and the resurrection of the dead

Resurrection in rabbinic Judaism

Fifty years of Jewish learning: what has changed and what difference does it make?

Autobiography of an impresario: encounters with Hershel Shanks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780761855910

0761855912

OCLC:

742512201