Title: Rabbinic literature & the New Testament
Subtitle: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know
First published: 1994
Description: Here is a sustained criticism of the "rather facile use" of rabbinic literature by New Testament scholarship. In particular, Neusner addresses the writings of Helmut Koester, Samuel Sandmel, Reginald Fuller, Harvey Falk, Geza Vermes, E.P. Sanders, S.J.D. Cohen, Morton Smith, John P. Meier, and Brad H. Young.

The book begins with a study of the characteristics of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of why this literature cannot be easily used for the kind of history New Testament scholarship proposes to produce. Then follow critiques of the writings by various New Testament scholars and the differences between Professor Neusner and his critics. A concluding section pays tribute to the New Testament field for all it has taught the author.
Subjects: Rabbinical literature, Bible, Relation to the New Testament, Extra-canonical parallels, History and criticism, 11.47 cultural-historical background of the New Testament, Parallèles extracanoniques, Histoire et critique chrétiennes, Littérature rabbinique, Rabbinismus, Bibel, Neues Testament, Nieuwe Testament, Rabbijnse literatuur, Relation avec le Nouveau Testament, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t.
LC classification: BM496.5 .N4818 1994