The achievement of a lifetime from one of today's most eminent Judaic scholars--a landmark commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era: the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.
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The achievement of a lifetime from one of today's most eminent Judaic scholars--a landmark commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era: the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.
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Useful, but lacking basic nuts and bolts information,
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Having bought or borrowed several other books by Neusner I sort of knew what to expect and have found the survey of Rabbinical Literature useful - certainly in terms of literary form. However one major ommission that really should have been included in an "Introduction" is basic contextual information such as dates of composition and addition, transmission, current extant texts and so on. In other words the sort of text-by-text information you would find before each section in a good introduction to Dead Sea Scrolls or Pseudepigrapha. This is less relevant perhaps to Rabbinical Literature where transmission is part of the tradition, but that doesn't change the fact that, as with any ancient, or even medieval, text there are still variant text sources for many of the documents described and an estimate of place and time of composition and transmission is useful. Having looked at various chapters I'm still not a great deal wiser "did this document come out of Sephardic North Africa 500CE or Ashkenazi Silesia a thousand years later?", "does it exist in one editio princeps or 100 local variants?" etc. And it would have (presumably) been so easy to address these questions at the start of each chapter. But again, if you're mainly interested in literary form, then go for it. Neusner is excellent in these areas.
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more than a bit dry, but . . .,
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a useful guide to the major rabbinic works of the first millenium. If you have ever wanted to know the difference between the Mishnah and the Mekhilta, or what the major types of Midrashic books were, this book is at least worth skimming. The book's discussion of these works' literary style was a bit over my head, but the excerpts gave me more of a feel for midrashic reasoning.
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Rabbinic literature forms the canon of the Judaism of the dual Torah as that corpus reached conclusion by the end of late antiquity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intersecting verse, line with this verse, base verse, formulary traits, formulary pattern, one blesses over the wine, targumic toseftot, wife because the days, topical program, redactional program, invalidating blemishes, synagogal lections, cogent discourse, exegetical form, different targums, place upon the mouth, blood deriving, girding with sackcloth, redactional considerations, propositional program, propositional compositions, smallest whole units, cheap fence, paramount logic, systematic biography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy One, Leviticus Rabbah, Genesis Rabbah, House of Hillel, Talmud of Babylonia, Rabbi Nathan, Pesiqta Rabbati, Babylonian Talmud, Mekhilta Attributed, Targum Onqelos, Lord God, Targum Jonathan, Ruth Rabbah, New Year, Hebrew Scriptures, Rabban Simeon, Pseudo Jonathan, Cairo Geniza, Esther Rabbah Part One, Targum Neofiti, University of Chicago Press, Torah of Sinai, Fortress Press, New York, Old Testament New!
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Rabbinic literature forms the canon of the Judaism of the dual Torah as that corpus reached conclusion by the end of late antiquity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intersecting verse, line with this verse, base verse, formulary traits, formulary pattern, one blesses over the wine, targumic toseftot, wife because the days, topical program, redactional program, invalidating blemishes, synagogal lections, cogent discourse, exegetical form, different targums, place upon the mouth, blood deriving, girding with sackcloth, redactional considerations, propositional program, propositional compositions, smallest whole units, cheap fence, paramount logic, systematic biography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy One, Leviticus Rabbah, Genesis Rabbah, House of Hillel, Talmud of Babylonia, Rabbi Nathan, Pesiqta Rabbati, Babylonian Talmud, Mekhilta Attributed, Targum Onqelos, Lord God, Targum Jonathan, Ruth Rabbah, New Year, Hebrew Scriptures, Rabban Simeon, Pseudo Jonathan, Cairo Geniza, Esther Rabbah Part One, Targum Neofiti, University of Chicago Press, Torah of Sinai, Fortress Press, New York, Old Testament New!
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- Midrash Rabbah (10 Vol. Set) by Ph.D. on 6 pages
- The Study of Ancient Judaism, Vol. 1: Mishnah, Midrash, Siddur by Jacob Neusner on page 97, page 155, and page 223
- Ancient Judaism: Debates and Disputes by Jacob Neusner on page 97, page 155, and page 223
- Late Antiquity by Peter Brown on page 13, and page 592
- Writing With Scripture: The Authority and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in the Torah of Formative Judaism by Jacob Neusner on page 18, and page 238
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- Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds by Donald Harman Akenson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Tell It on the Mountain: The Daughter of Jephthah in Judges 11 (Interfaces) by Barbara Miller on page 63, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Fred Astren on page 44, and Back Matter
- The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Robert Chazan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries by Deborah F. Sawyer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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