Handbook of Rabbinic Theology
Subtitle: Language, System, Structure
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780391041394
Description: While the rabbinic literature is often seen as a collection of miscellaneous responses to questions arising from study of the Hebrew Bible and its application to contemporary life, Neusner sees a system behind and embodied in the various writings. He discusses the ways in which the divine thought, and the human thinking that sought faithfully to interpret it, actually came to expression and treats what he calls the grammar of the divine self-expression in order to help us see the theological structure that it implies. Then he shows how this implicit system is expressed in the rules for the life of the people that God has chosen as his own. --from publisher description.