Chapters in the formative history of Judaism
Subtitle: sixth series : more essays on the history, literature, and theology of Judaism
By: Jacob Neusner
Series: Studies in Judaism; Studies in Judaism
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780761855910; 9780761855927
Subjects: Rabbinismus; Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Post-exilic period (Judaism); History and criticism; Judentum; History
Other titles: More essays on the history, literature, and theology of Judaism
Description: "This collection of seven essays draws on work done in 2010. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaisms and deals with comparisons of Judaisms. The papers include two commentaries on the current state of the academic study of Judaism. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing 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"--Publisher's description, back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Comparison and classification of systems of the social order; title: The social vision of rabbinic Judaism; title: The rabbis and the prophets : the case of Amos; title: The messiah and the resurrection of the dead; title: Resurrection in rabbinic Judaism; title: Fifty years of Jewish learning : what has changed and what difference does it make?; title: Autobiography of an impresario : encounters with Hershel Shanks.