A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery), 1953- editor.

Series:

Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 43.

Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; Volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-.

Neusner, Jacob.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud.

Talmud--Evidences, authority, etc.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning / William Scott Green , Alan J. Avery-Peck , Bruce Chilton and Gary G. Porton

The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis / Alan J. Avery-Peck

Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings / Judith R. Baskin

“It Is Time to Act for the Lord”: In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel / Craig A. Evans

Tent of Meeting as Bet Ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel / Paul V.M. Flesher

Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis / Joel Gereboff

Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation / William Scott Green

“The Weaver of Midrash in Performance”: Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim / Martin S. Jaffee

The “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It / Peter J. Haas

Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud / Baruch A. Levine

How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah / Gary G. Porton

Varieties of Religious Visualizations / Tzvee Zahavy

Vayavo Ya’acov Shalem / Herbert Basser

The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement / Bruce Chilton

Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism / David Kraemer

Jesus Talks Back / Amy-Jill Levine

Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner / Elliot R. Wolfson

The American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism”: Jacob Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism / Shaul Magid

Intentionality and Meaning / Robert M. Berchman

Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse / Th. Emil Homerin

The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon / Aaron W. Hughes

Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts / Roger Brooks

Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References

Index of Cited Authors

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28428-1

OCLC:

894170771

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004284289 DOI