Parsing the Torah
Subtitle: surveying the history, literature, religion, and theology of formative Judaism
By: Jacob Neusner.
Series: Studies in Judaism
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 -- Historiography; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism; Judaism -- Doctrines; Women in Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-lxxiv).
Table of contents: title: Asking the historical question; title: Documents and their traits form analysis and the documentory history of ideas; title: The key to systemic analysis: women; title: Systemic analysis: [1] philosophy; title: Systemic analysis: [2] economics; title: Systemic analysis: [3] politics; title: Documentary history: from philosophy to religion; title: The social teaching of rabbinic Judaism in Israelite, Christian and pagan context; title: The theological teaching of rabbinic Judaism; title: Appendix: From history to religion: a personal progress.