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The Emergence of Judaism by Jacob Neusner 9780664227807
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.92This introductory textbook on the history of Judaism, written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, is ideal for college freshmen and high school seniors. The book includes chapters on the... -
The Mishnah: An Introduction by Jacob Neusner 9780876688762
Booksplease Price: £86.43In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks: How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written - a book... -
The Rabbis and the Prophets by Jacob Neusner 9780761854371
Booksplease Price: £41.36The Prophets of Scripture are subverted by the Rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash. In the Rabbinic canon, the Prophets are represented as a miscellaneous mass of proof-texts, made up of one clause or... -
Women and Families by Jacob Neusner 9781597525046
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597525046Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackImprint -
Halakhic Hermeneutics by Jacob Neusner 9780761825289
Booksplease Price: £103.41This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction... -
Judaism: The Basics by Jacob Neusner 9780415401753
Booksplease Price: £110.39The oldest of the world's major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource... -
Evil and Suffering by Jacob Neusner 9781597525060
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597525060Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Midrash: An Introduction by Jacob Neusner 9781568213576
Booksplease Price: £40.38The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible. In this masterful presentation, the reader is introduced to the classics of Jewish Bible interpretation, with... -
Parsing the Torah by Jacob Neusner 9780761832669
Booksplease Price: £71.54After publishing a number of books in the history, literature, social thought, history of religion, and theology of formative Judaism, in the first six centuries C.E., Neusner explains the principal... -
Praxis and Parable by Jacob Neusner 9780761833406
Booksplease Price: £61.62Judaism's two native categories, narrative theology and law (also known as parable and praxis or Aggadah and Halakhah) form two distinct modes of discourse. The one expounds norms of attitude and... -
The Mishnah: An Introduction by Jacob Neusner 9781568213583
Booksplease Price: £40.38To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568213583Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imp -
The Rabbinic Utopia by Jacob Neusner 9780761838838
Booksplease Price: £40.79This book expounds upon the Utopian vision of Rabbinic Judaism in its classical documents. Rabbinic Judaism carries forward, and itself forms, a massive Utopian enterprise, a design of an ideal... -
Rabbi Jeremiah by Jacob Neusner 9780761835950
Booksplease Price: £41.36This analysis of how the Rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash made Jeremiah one of their own shows how Rabbinic Judaism rehearses the Prophetic message. Jeremiah offered hope to renew the relation that... -
Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi by Jacob Neusner 9780761840893
Booksplease Price: £90.87In Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi, Jacob Neusner systematically defines and classifies the four analytical initiatives of the Bavli in its encounter with the Mishnah. Neusner questions... -
The Mishnah: A New Translation by Jacob Neusner 9780300050226
Booksplease Price: £70.95The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This path-breaking edition provides as close to a literal translation as possible,... -
Ezekiel in Talmud and Midrash by Jacob Neusner 9780761836940
Booksplease Price: £66.26The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They... -
How the Halakhah Unfolds by Jacob Neusner 9780761836186
Booksplease Price: £66.88In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought... -
Hosea in Talmud and Midrash by Jacob Neusner 9780761835929
Booksplease Price: £43.33In the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Rabbis of formative Judaism, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, consulted the ancient Israelite prophets for guidance on issues of theology, law,... -
Halakhic Theology: A Sourcebook by Jacob Neusner 9780761833840
Booksplease Price: £61.62Laws, or Halakhah, and narratives, or Aggadah, comprises the Torah. Halakhah, normative law, makes the same statement in terms of behavior that Aggadah, in its systematic and abstract mode, makes in... -
SifrZ Zutta to Numbers by Jacob Neusner 9780761844037
Booksplease Price: £51.20Sifre Zutta to Numbers is the first translation into English of H.S. Horovitz's Siphre d'be Rab: Siphre ad Numeros adjecto Siphre zutta. It aims at contributing to the characterization of Sifre Zutta... -
How the Halakhah Unfolds by Jacob Neusner 9780761836162
Booksplease Price: £76.10In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought... -
Reaffirming Higher Education by Jacob Neusner 9781560004257
Booksplease Price: £73.69How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic... -
Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah by Jacob Neusner 9781592443604
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592443604Author Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint -
Altruism in World Religions by Jacob Neusner 9781589010659
Booksplease Price: £53.91In 1830 philosopher Auguste Comte coined the term altruism to provide a general definition for the act of selflessly caring for others. But does this modern conception of sacrificing one's own... -
The Rabbis, the Law, and the Prophets by Jacob Neusner 9780761838975
Booksplease Price: £61.62Here is an answer to the question, what do we learn about the Rabbinic system from its encounter with the Prophetic books? This book analyzes the way in which Rabbinic Judaism in its formative canon... -
How the Halakhah Unfolds by Jacob Neusner 9780761836179
Booksplease Price: £56.66In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought... -
Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah? by Jacob Neusner 9780761831174
Booksplease Price: £56.67The Halakhah constitutes a coherent construction comprised by category-formations defined by topics purposively amplified. These category-formations everywhere pursue a cogent analytical program,... -
Analytical Templates of the Bavli by Jacob Neusner 9780761833925
Booksplease Price: £56.66In the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), the Tosefta (ca. 300 C.E.), and the commentaries that joined them-the Yerushalmi, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400) and the Bavli, and the Talmud of Babylonia... -
In Quest of the Historical Pharisees by Jacob Neusner 9781932792720
Booksplease Price: £42.72This work sketches the many portraits of the Pharisees that emerge from ancient sources. Based upon the Gospels, the writings of Paul, Josephus, the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and archeology, the volume... -
Judaism in Monologue and Dialogue by Jacob Neusner 9780761832447
Booksplease Price: £43.33The first group of essays in Judaism in Monologue and Dialogue raises issues concerning the religious tradition of Judaism: what is normative in ethics; what it means to "be religious" or practice... -
How the Halakhah Unfolds by Jacob Neusner 9780761836155
Booksplease Price: £51.70In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought... -
Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash by Jacob Neusner 9780761834878
Booksplease Price: £71.18This sourcebook collects and classifies how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. It is well known that verses of prophecy... -
The Blackwell Reader in Judaism by Jacob Neusner 9780631207375
RRP: £133.95Booksplease Price: £124.87The Blackwell Reader in Judaism introduces Judaism in its own words, affording readers a direct encounter with this ancient and enduring faith.About the AuthorJacob Neusner is Research Professor of... -
The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism by Jacob Neusner
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism. Jacob Neusner outlines and examines the four stages in which the initial period of the historical... -
The Torah and the Halakhah: The Four Relationships by Jacob Neusner 9780761825265
Booksplease Price: £96.35This is a study of the relationship between two cognate religious components of Judaism, the laws of the Pentateuch and the corpus of Halakhah set forth by the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli. Both... -
The Golden Rule: Analytical Perspectives by Jacob Neusner 9780761841012
Booksplease Price: £44.31The Golden Rule-'do to others as you would have them do to you', 'what is hateful to you to your fellow don't do', to take the two most familiar formulations-defines a meeting place for many fields... -
Just War in Religion and Politics by Jacob Neusner 9780761860938
Booksplease Price: £52.00The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives. Half of the book is devoted to the comparative study of religions and the courses are offered by... -
Rabbi Moses: A Documentary Catalogue by Jacob Neusner 9780761860914
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Specifically, Neusner demonstrates the capacity of the Rabbinic sages to read ideas... -
Death and the Afterlife by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner 9781608994144
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608994144Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Co -
The Talmud: What It Is and What It Says by Jacob Neusner 9780742546714
Booksplease Price: £33.49Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations...