This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner periodically collects and publishes essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs 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 précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs, the comparative Midrash exercise, for example.
ISBN: | 9780761852391 |
Publication date: | 15th July 2010 |
Author: | Jacob Neusner |
Publisher: | University Press of America |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 140 pages |
Series: | Studies in Judaism |
Genres: |
Religion and beliefs Rabbinic literature Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings Judaism |