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DIE GESTALTWERDUNG DES JUDENTUMS: DIE JÜDISCHE RELIGION ALS ANTWORT AUF DIE KRITISCHEN HERAUSFORDERUNGEN DER ERSTEN SECHS JAHRHUNDERTE DER CHRISTLICHEN ÄRA
Softbound. 8vo. 277 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. The taking shape of Judaism: The Jewish religion as a response to the critical challenges of the first six centuries of the Christian era. In the series: Judentum und Umwelt, Bd. 51. Subjects: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425. Judaïsme - 10-425 (période talmudique) Judaïsme - Relations - Christianisme. Christianisme - Relations - Judaïsme. Talmud - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Light shelf wear, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-42)
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EXTRA-AND NON-DOCUMENTARY WRITING IN THE CANON OF FORMATIVE JUDAISM [THREE VOLUMES COMPLETE]
Softbound. 8vo. 347; 373; 373 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Three volume set: v. 1. The pointless parallel: Hans-Jürgen Becker and the myth of the autonomous tradition - v. 2. Paltry parallels: the negligible proportion and peripheral role of free-standing compositions in rabbinic documents - v. 3. Peripatetic parallels: extra- and non-documentary writing in the canon of formative Judaism. Rabbinic literature in its formative age, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, ca. 100600 c. E. , is comprised by documents that relate to one another in three ways. First, they are autonomous and self-contained; second, they are connected with one another; and third, they are continuous with one another. Some point to the connections, in the form of parallel versions of sayings or stories, as evidence against the theory that the documents possess integrity. Volume One addresses the contrary position as represented by the writings of three generations, the Goldberg-Schaefer-Becker group, of the German academic school of Rabbinic studies. That school holds that for antiquity there is nothing we may call Judaism, a religious system realized in its canonical writings.
In Volume One of Neusners canonical compilations, these parallels make no point at all. They are random, trivial, and prove nothing.
Volume Two samples the other-than-documentary components, compositions, and composites of the Bavli, Mishnah, Tosefta, Sifra, and Genesis Rabbah that do not exhibit the distinctive traits of those documents. It shows that, for the analyzed samples of Bavli, Mishnah, Tosefta, and Sifra, the extra- and non-documentary writing forms a paltry proportion of the whole. Free-standing compositions furthermore undertake no critical documentary task within the document (s) in which they occur.
Volume Three reprises Neusners The Peripatetic Saying: The Problem of the Thrice-Told-Tale in Talmudic Literature (Chico, 1985; Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies) . It responds to critics of the documentary reading of the canonical documents of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age who make much of the variations in manuscript readings of sayings and stories. These variations are so different from one another that, so the critics maintain, they call into question the very conception of a document. Each manuscript (let alone each compilation) has its own representation of a given compilation; there are no determinate documents. That is because the documentary program of rhetoric, topic, and logic of coherent discourse makes no impact on sayings or stories that circulate beyond the limits of any one document. All we have are diverse versions of we-know-not what. For the sample covered in these pages, claims that parallels move from document to document vastly exaggerate the range of variation. The variant readings are paltry and pointless, just like the parallels to which Volumes One and Two are devoted. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Midrash - History and criticism - Theory, etc. Rabbinical literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. Rabbinische Literatur. Becker, Hans-Jürgen, 1956- Grossen rabbinischen Sammelwerke Palästinas. Talmud - Criticism, Form. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-7)
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FORMATIVE JUDAISM: RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, AND LITERARY STUDIES: SIXTH SERIES
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVIII, 197 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 184. Subjects: Judaism. Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-20)
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FROM DESCRIPTION TO CONVICTION: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF JUDAISM
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVIII, 141 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 86. Subjects: Judaism - Doctrines. Judaism - Sacred books. Judaism - 20th century. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-48)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
FROM LITERATURE TO THEOLOGY IN FORMATIVE JUDAISM: THREE PRELIMINARY STUDIES
Original Cloth. 8vo. XIX, 227 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 199. Subjects: Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425. Rabbinische Literatur Aufsatzsammlung Midrasch Midrash rabbah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-22)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
GENESIS AND JUDAISM: THE PERSPECTIVE OF GENESIS RABBAH : AN ANALYTICAL ANTHOLOGY
Softbound. 8vo. XIV, 208 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 108. Subjects: Judaism - Doctrines. Judaïsme - Doctrines. Midrash rabbah. Genesis - Commentaries. Midrash rabbah. Genèse - Commentaires. Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-43)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
GOODENOUGH ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND ON JUDAISM
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 146 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies 121. Subjects: Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B. C. -210 A. D. Jewish art and symbolism. Religion - History - Study and teaching. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-52)
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HISTORY AND TORAH; ESSAYS ON JEWISH LEARNING
Original Cloth. 8vo. 127 pages. 23 cm. First British edition. A collection of essays by Jacob Neusner, including: History and Midrash. - Intellectual honesty in Jewish learning. - The eighty-ninth Psalm: paragigm of Israel's faith. - City, society, self: goals for Jewish learning. - Motivations for Jewish learning in the Diaspora. - Scholars and machines. - Learning and deeds: a life of Rabbi Tarfon. - An aristocrat of the intellect: Rabbi Ishmael the son of Rabbi Yosi. Subjects: Jews - Intellectual life. Talmud - Study and teaching - History. Talmud - Study and teaching - History. Light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-43)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
HOW JUDAISM READS THE TORAH, III/IV
Original hardback. 8vo. 217 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Volume 3 and 4 only. Two volumes in one: Volume 3. Wayward women in the wilderness: an anthology of Sifré to Numbers Volume 4. "I deal death and I give life": how classical Judaism confronts holocaust: an anthology of Sifré to Deuteronomy. In the series: Judentum und Umwelt vol. 42. Subjects: Halakhic Midrashim - Translations into English. Golden rule. Adultery (Jewish law) Jews in rabbinical literature. Bible. Pentateuch - Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Jewish. Ten commandments. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-41)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
HOW THE BAVLI IS CONSTRUCTED: IDENTIFYING THE FORESTS COMPRISED BY THE TALMUD'S TREES: THE CASES OF BAVLI MOED QATAN AND BAVLI MAKKOT
Softbound. 8vo. XI, 423 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In this Neusner book, he seeks to discern the Talmud's forests from its trees. By 'trees' is meant episodic and free-standing statements, facts out of any larger context. By 'forests' is meant whole paragraphs and still larger constructions of thought made out of sentences that in context and in sequence cohere. Accordingly, the issue here is how the Talmud transforms isolated facts into cogent and coherent constructions: the forests formed by the Talmud's trees. What is at stake is simply stated: What ignores the program of the Bavli in its composition and in the formation of its composites belongs in other, different documents from the Bavli and we can reconstruct through an act of imagination in response to the characteristics of the secondary composites of the Bavli the traits of those other, different documents. (Publishers description) Subjects: Jewish law - Interpretation and construction. Talmud. Mo`ed katan - Criticism, Redaction. Talmud. Makkot - Criticism, Redaction. Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-8)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
HOW THE TALMUD SHAPED RABBINIC DISCOURSE
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVI, 162 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Contents: Literary History and the Perspective of Ultimate Redaction. A Reprise of the Argument of Making the Classics in Judaism. The Three Stages of Literary Formation - The Unrealized Talmud of Sifra. Cases in Bavli Menahot Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight - The Unrealized Talmud of Tosefta. The Cases of Bavli and Yerushalmi Berakhot - Other Unrealized Talmuds. The Case of Statements Accorded Tannaite Status and Subjected to Sustained Critical Analysis in the Manner of the Talmud to the Mishnah - Now the Bavli Shaped Rabbinic Discourse - Epilogue: The Debate with Halivni - Appendix: Two Cases of the Argument from Attributions - 1. Kalmin's Appeal to Nonattributions - 2. Kraemer's Appeal to Attributions. South Florida studies in the history of Judaism 33. Subjects: Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Rabbinische Literatur Talmud - Criticism, Redaction. Talmud - Sources. Mishnah - Comparative studies. Tosefta - Comparative studies. Sifra - Comparative studies. Talmud. Condition. (NEUSNER-1-10)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
IN THE MARGINS OF THE YERUSHALMI: GLOSSES ON THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Softbound. 8vo. V, 153 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 55. Subjects: Talmud Yerushalmi. English - Versions - Neusner. Light shelf wear, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-46) Xx
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN JUDAISM: WHAT THE BOOKS SAY, WHAT THE PEOPLE DO
Softbound. 8vo. XII, 179 pages. 23 cm. Second edition. Previously published: Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1994, under the title: Fortress introduction to American Judaism. The character of any religion as it is lived and practiced can be quite different from the prescriptions and ideals of its traditions and rituals. This bifurcation can be found also in the tension between the ideas people hold and the things they do. Jacob Neusner explains in the preface: The issue I address in these pages for a broad audience of people who care about religion in general, not Judaism in particular, is an urgent one: explaining what we see, not only what we read. So I decided to focus the book more sharply on what strikes me as Judaism's most suggestive trait - the fairly broadly diffused knowledge of what matters and what doesn't. Students, general readers, members of the clergy, and teachers will find here a lucid and compelling account of the actual life of Jewish people - in the synagogue, at home, in ritual - and of commonly held attitudes toward Holocaust and redemption, the Sabbath and festivals, study of the Torah, the State of Israel, and more. (Publishers Description) . Subjects: Judaism - Social aspects - United States. Judaism - Social aspects - Canada. Judaism - United States - Customs and practices. Judaism - Canada - Customs and practices. Jewish way of life. Judaism - 20th century. Jewish sociology. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-19)
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INTRODUCTION TO RABBINIC LITERATURE
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXXI, 720 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Contains the following: Rabbinic literature as a whole. Defining rabbinic literature and its principal parts; Distinguishing documents by distinctive characteristics: rhetoric and topic; Documentary coherence and differentiation: the four logics of coherent discourse in rabbinic literature; The dialectical argument in rabbinic literature - The Mishnah and its exegesis. The Mishnah; The Tosefta; The Talmud of the land of Israel; The Talmud of Babylonia - The reception of Scripture: the three types of Midrash-exegesis in rabbinic literature. Midrash: writing with Scripture ; Mekhilta attributed to R. Ishmael (Exodus) ; Sifra (Leviticus) ; Sifré to Numbers; Sifré to Deuteronomy; Genesis Rabbah; Leviticus Rabbah; Pesiqta deRab Kahana; Pesiqta Rabbati; Song of Songs Rabbah; Ruth Rabbah; Lamentations Rabbati; Esther Rabbah part one - Writing without authors: the sage in rabbinic literature. Rabbinic literature and individual sages: writing without authors; Tractate Abot (the fathers) ; Abot deRabbi Nathan (the fathers according to Rabbi Nathan) - The Targumim. The Targumim in the context of rabbinic literature / Paul V. McCracken Flesher - Conclusion. Rabbinic literature and the formation of Judaism. Subjects: Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425. Fresh in great jacket. Very good + condition. (NEUSNER-2-32)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
INVITATION TO THE TALMUD: A TEACHING BOOK
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXXI, 359 pages. 22 cm. Revised and expanded edition. Text in Aramaic, English, and Hebrew. Subjects: Talmud Introductions. Light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-58)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
INVITATION TO THE TALMUD; A TEACHING BOOK
Softbound. 8vo. XXII, 263 pages. 22 cm. First Paperback edition. A rabbi focuses upon laws dealing with ritual behavior at meals in the Mishnah, Tasefta, Babylonian Talmud, and Palestinian Talmud, and discusses the relevance of Talmudic modes of thought and analysis. (Publishers Description) . Subjects: Talmud - Introductions. Light shelf wear, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (NEUSNER-2-57)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
ISRAEL IN AMERICA: A TOO-COMFORTABLE EXILE?
Softcover. 8vo. XI, 203 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In this lively and thoughtful series of essays, distinguished Jewish scholar and educator Jacob Neusner examines the American Jewish community-the history of its Judaism, its practices, its beliefs, and its paradoxical position as "Israel in America. " Neusner traces the history of American Judaism from its immigrant and isolationist origins to the present-day movement of Jewish reaffirmation. He outspokenly discusses the impact of American Jews on classic Judaic theology, their complex and often troubled relationship with the state of Israel, and the public policy changes they face on a daily basis. Subjects: Judaism - United States. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (NEUSNER-3-22)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
JUDAIC PERSPECTIVES ON ANCIENT ISRAEL
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVIII, 318 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Edited by Jacob Neusner, Baruch A. Levine, and Ernest S. Frerichs; literary editor, Caroline McCracken-Flesher. This volume assembles for the first time a representative statement of Judaic learning on the Old Testament as it is studied today by many of the most important Jewish Bible scholars of the age. A host of internationally known scholars - American, European, and Israeli - here present a variety of rich perspectives on the study and interpretation of the Scriptures revered by both Judaism and Christianity. These studies make clear that no single Jewish school of biblical scholarship exists. Rather there is a Jewish approach, involving appreciation for Hebrew as a living language; the reality of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel; the continuity of Scripture in the life of Israel, the Jewish people, and the state of Israel; and a complete and healthy adaptation of the critical perspectives of contemporary scholarship. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Bible. Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Jewish - History - 20th century. Light wear to jacket, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-8)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
JUDAISM AFTER THE DEATH OF "THE DEATH OF GOD"
Original Cloth. 8vo. XI, 187 pages. 24 cm. First edition. South Florida studies in the history of Judaism no. 109. Subjects: Judaism - 20th century. Death of God theology. Jews - Cultural assimilation. Jüdische Theologie. Gott-ist-tot-Theologie. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-54) Xx
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JUDAISM AFTER THE DEATH OF "THE DEATH OF GOD"
First edition. Original cloth, 8vo, xxvi, [187] pages. 24 cm. SUBJECTS: Judaism 20th century. Death of God theology. Jew Cultural Assimilation. Series: South Florida studies in the history of Judaism, no. 113. Ex-library with usual markings, otherwise in Good condition. (AC-1-7)
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JUDAISM AND SCRIPTURE: THE EVIDENCE OF LEVITICUS RABBAH
Softbound. 8vo. 664 pages. 23 cm. Second edition. This groundbreaking work continues Jacob Neusner's multi-volume examination of the main texts of Judaism in its formative years. The first two parts of the project'Judaism: The Evidence of the Yerushalmi'examined the Mishnah and the Talmud of the Land of Israel and placed them in the social, intellectual, and religious contexts of their time. In 'Judaism and Scripture' Neusner moves from the study of ancient Judaism in society at large to an analysis of Rabbinic Judaism in relation to Scripture itself. Neusner accomplishes this both through close analysis and through the first English translation of the critical text of the Leviticus Rabbah. Tracing the relationship between the actual Book of Leviticus and its rabbinic commentary, Neusner asks how the rabbis who stand behind the text make use of Leviticus and how, through their comments on it, they make intelligible and comprehensible statements of their own. In answering these two questions Neusner shows, through a prime example, exactly how Scripture enters Judaism and how rabbis of the formative age of Judaism chose and taught the lessons they deemed critical to the life of Israel, the Jewish people. (Publishers description) First published by University of Chicago, 1986. Subjects: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425. Judaïsme - Histoire - 10-425 (Période talmudique) Geschichte 10-425. Judaism; Midrashim - Critical studies. Midrash rabbah. Leviticus - Commentaries. Midrash Rabbah. Lévitique Commentaires. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-24)
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JUDAISM AND STORY: THE EVIDENCE OF THE FATHERS ACCORDING TO RABBI NATHAN
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 241 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In this close analysis of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractate The Fathers (Avot) , Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings of Judaism. The final installment in Neusner's cycle of analyses of the major texts of the Judaic canon, Judaism and Story shows that stories about sages exist in far greater proportion in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan than in any of the other principal writings in the canon of Judaism of late antiquity. Neusner's detailed comparison of The Fathers and The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan demonstrates the transmission and elaboration of these stories and shows how these processes incorporated the newer view of the sage as a supernatural figure and of the eschatological character of Judaic teleology. These distinctions, as Neusner describes them, mark a shift in Jewish orientation to world history. Judaism and Story documents a chapter of rabbinic tradition that explored the possibility of historical orientation by means of stories. As Neusner demonstrates, this experiment with narrative went beyond the borders of rabbinic preoccupation with rhetorical argumentation focused on the explication of the Torah. The sage story moved in the direction of biography, but without allowing biography to emerge. This development, in Neusner's account, parallels the movement from epistle to Gospel in early Christianity and thus has broad implications for the history of religions. (Publishers Description) . Subjects: Rabbis - Biography - History and criticism. Jewish legends - History and criticism. Talmud. Minor tractates. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan - Biography. Talmud. Minor tractates. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan - Legends. Lacks jacket. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-51)
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JUDAISM IN THE AMERICAN HUMANITIES: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS
Softbound. 8vo. XVIII, 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Contents: Defining the humanities: clearing away some debris - Defining the humanities: from many, one? - Stranger at home: toward a theory of the humanistic study of religion - NEH occasions: who chooses? - NEH occasions: open meetings - NEH occasions: the humanities, public policy, and organized Jewry - Contexts and constituencies: the diverse responsibilities of higher Jewish learning - Contexts and curricula: introducing Judaism in the humanities: the first course and its problems -- Contexts and classrooms: modes of academic advocacy: the case of Judaism - Toward a theory of comparison: alike and not alike: a grid for comparison and differentiation - Toward a theory of category-formation: shaping useful categories: the problem of "Judaism, " "Christianity, " and "Hellenism" - Toward a theory of Talmudic "lives": the present state of rabbinic biography - Some consequences of theory: religion and society in ancient Judaism with special reference to the second and third centuries - Judaic studies as the humanities of the Jewish heritage. Brown Judaic studies no. 28. Subjects: Judaism - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States. Jews - History - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States. Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425 - Historiography. Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-49)
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JUDAISM IN THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY
Softbound. 8vo. 112 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In this book Jacob Neusner answers the central questions about the world of Judaism in which Christianity was born. He gives an overview of the history and religion of Israel and an analysis of the Judaic legacy as it endured among those who did not become Christians. (Publishers Description) Subjects: Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B. C. -210 A. D. Judaism - Relations - Christianity. Christianity and other religions - Judaism. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (NEUSNER-3-30) Xx
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JUDAISM IN THE SECULAR AGE; ESSAYS ON FELLOWSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND FREEDOM
Original Cloth. 8vo. X, 181 pages. 23 cm. First edition. A collection of essays dealing with modern Jewish history, from Shabbetai Zvi to Theodore Herzl, secularization, conservative judaism, and liberal judaism. Subjects: Judaism - 20th century. Judentum. Geschichte 1800-1970. Marked, 'correction copy' on endpage, otherwise fresh. Clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-18)
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JUDAISM'S THEOLOGICAL VOICE: THE MELODY OF THE TALMUD
Softbound. 8vo. XVII, 224 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Distinguished historian of Judaism Jacob Neusner here ventures for the first time into constructive theology. Taking the everyday life of contemporary Judaism as his beginning, Neusner asks when in the life of the living faith of the Torah does Israel, the holy community, meet God? Where does the meeting take place? What is the medium of the encounter? In his attempt to answer these questions, Neusner sets forth the character and the form of the Torah as sung theology. Israel, the holy community, meets God in the synagogue, while at prayer, and in the yeshiva, when studying the Torah--at the moment in each setting when the Torah is received. In both circumstances people do not read but sing out its words. With the written part of the Torah sung in the synagogue, and the oral part declaimed in centers of sacred learning, music provides the medium for Judaism's theological voice. Neusner identifies a reciprocal exchange between the holy community Israel and God: Israel sings to God when the Torah is studied, and God sings to Israel when the Torah is declaimed. Through the metaphor of music, Neusner offers an account of how he believes those faithful to the Torah meet God in the Torah, and how they should listen to the melody of God's self-revelation. The result is an original theological reflection that will interest all students of Judaism. (Publishers description) Subjects: Cantillation. Jewish law - Interpretation and construction. Judaism - Doctrines. Bible. Old Testament - Liturgical use. Bible. Old Testament - Accents and accentuation. Talmud - Hermeneutics. Talmud - Study and teaching. Wraps bumped, light soiling to outer edges, internally fresh and clean. Good + condition. (NEUSNER-2-30)
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JUDAISM: THE EVIDENCE OF THE MISHNAH
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXVII, 497 pages. 24 cm. Second augmented edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 129. Subjects: Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Mishnah. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-14)
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LEARN MISHNAH
Softbound. 8vo. 136 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In English and Hebrew. Introduces Mishnah, the oral law of Judaism received by Moses from God at Mount Sinai. Illustrated by Jim Hellmuth. Written for juvenile audiences. Subjects: Jewish religious education. Misjna. Mishnah Textbooks. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-55)
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LEARN TALMUD
Softbound. 8vo. 166 pages. 24 cm. First edition. A study of the Talmud that applies traditional values to modern life. Includes passages and vocabulary in English and Hebrew or Aramaic. Designed by Ed Schneider; illustrated by Jim Hellmuth. Written for juvenile audiences. Subjects: Jewish religious education. Talmud - Textbooks. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-53)
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MAJOR TRENDS IN FORMATIVE JUDAISM [TWO VOLUMES ONLY]
Softbound. 8vo. 116; 152 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Volume 1. Society and symbol in political crisis (2) Second series: Texts, contents, and contexts. Brown Judaic studies no. 60-61. Subjects: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425. Messiah - Judaism - History of doctrines. Jodendom. Talmoed. Rabbijnse literatuur. Messie - Histoire des doctrines. Judaïsme - Histoire - 10-425 (Période talmudique) Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Mishna - Critique, interprétation, etc. Institutional stamp on endpage, light rubbing to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (NEUSNER-1-21)
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MEET OUR SAGES
Softbound. 8vo. 128 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Describes how the sages created the Mishnah, Talmud, and other holy books of the oral Torah. Illustrated by Jim Hellmuth. Written for juvenile audiences. Subjects: Tannaim - Juvenile literature. Aggada - Juvenile literature. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-54)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
MEKHILTA ACCORDING TO RABBI ISHMAEL: AN INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM'S FIRST SCRIPTURAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 250 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 152. Subjects: Halakhic Midrashim. Mechilta de-Rabbi Ishmael (anoniem) Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-15)
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METHOD AND MEANING IN ANCIENT JUDAISM [THREE VOLUMES; SERIES 1-3]
Softbound. 8vo. VII, 211; 223; 247 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Three volumes; first through third series of Method and Meaning in Ancient Judaism. Brown Judaic studies no. 10, 15, 16. Subjects: Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Talmud - Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. Pharisees - Historiography. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-25)
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METHOD AND MEANING IN ANCIENT JUDAISM: FOURTH SERIES
Original Cloth. 8vo. XIII, 287 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 168. Subjects: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425 - Historiography. Misjna. Judaïsme - Histoire - 10-425 (Période talmudique) - Historiographie. Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Mishna - Critique, interprétation, etc. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-26) Xx
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MIDRASH AS LITERATURE: THE PRIMACY OF DOCUMENTARY DISCOURSE
Softbound. 8vo. XIX, 234 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Subjects: Midrash - Critique, interprétation, etc. Kugel, James L. Judaism; Midrashim - Critical studies. Midrash - History and criticism. Condition. (NEUSNER-2-34)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
MIDRASH IN CONTEXT: EXEGESIS IN FORMATIVE JUDAISM
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 217 pages. 24 cm. First edition. This book is the first volume in Jacob Neusner's ground-breaking trilogy, 'The Foundations of Judaism: Method, Teleology, Doctrine. ' This Part One - 'Method' - offers the first systematic explanation of why the midrash collections - that is, books of rabbinical exegeses of Scripture - were written. Neusner investigates the circumstances in which the earliest midrash collections were organized around the Pentateuch, and explains both the purpose of the work and its historical context. (Publishers description) . The Foundations of Judaism : method, teleology, doctrine; pt. 1, method. Subjects: Midrash - History and criticism. Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Midrash - Critique, interprétation, etc. Littérature rabbinique - Histoire et critique. Midrasch. Bible. Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Jewish. Bible. A. T. - Critique, interprétation, etc. Juives. Light wear to jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-37)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
MITZVAH
Softbound. 8vo. 110 pages. 24 cm. First edition. An introduction to Jewish theology, emphasizing the concept of mitzvah, or commandment, and the meaning of the ceremony of bar or bat mitzvah. For juvenile audiences. Subjects: Bar mitzvah - Juvenile literature. Bat mitzvah - Juvenile literature. Commandments (Judaism) - Juvenile literature. Bar mitzvah. Bat mitzvah. Commandments (Judaism) . Condition. (NEUSNER-3-39)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
NEW HUMANITIES AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: THE CASE OF JEWISH STUDIES
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXVII, 187 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Edited by Neusner, includes essays by Jonathan Z. Smith, Calvin Goldscheider, Robert Alter, Arnold J. Band, Marvin Fox, Baruch Levine, Marc Lee Raphael, and Ivan G. Marcus on Graduate education in Jewish studies and Hebrew in American Universities. Subjects: Judaism - Study and teaching (Graduate) - United States. Jews - Study and teaching (Graduate) - United States. Light soiling to outer edges, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (NEUSNER-3-23)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
ORAL TRADITION IN JUDAISM: THE CASE OF THE MISHNAH
First edition. Publisher's green cloth, no dustjacket. 8vo, [167] pages, 23cm. SUBJECTS: Mishnah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Mishnah -- Mnemonic devices. Mishnoh -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Mishna -- Critique, interprétation, etc. Mishna -- Mnémotechnique. Mishnah. Mishnah. Slight crinkling to upper right margins, otherwise Very Good Condition (ac-1-11a)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
OUR SAGES, GOD, AND ISRAEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE TALMUD OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXIX, 181 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Around 200 C. E. , The great sages of two Jewish communities--the settlements in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia--received the Mishnah and began to explain its meaning and application. Their work eventually reached written form in the Babylonian Talmud and in the Talmud of the Land of lsrael. This anthology of teachings about the critical issues of Jewish existence formerly inaccessible in the English language, gives us insight to the path taken by Judaism in the Holy Land in the early years of Christianity. It also provides us an invaluable treasure for our Jewish community today. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Aggada - Translations into English. Clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-49)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
PRAXIS AND PARABLE : THE DIVERGENT DISCOURSES OF RABBINIC JUDAISM : HOW HALAKHIC AND AGGADIC DOCUMENTS TREAT THE BESTIARY COMMON TO THEM BOTH
Softbound. 8vo. XXIII, 262 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Judaism'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 belief, the other, norms of action and behavior. Each possesses its own modes of thought, topical program, and medium for expression. Joined together, they create a remarkably coherent statement. Any understanding of Rabbinic Judaism depends on a theory of how these two modes of thought and expression relate to form a single cogent system. In Praxis and Parable, author Jacob Neusner explores how that single topic 'the morality and law of the animal kingdom' in the Rabbinic canon of the formative age, like all other ubiquitous topics encompassed in that canon, produces two distinct vocabularies of analysis. These distinct realms of thought and speech on the same subject yield two separate classifications of the order of nature and society. How these two mediums of expressions intersect and diverge in a single case permits the general characterization of the two Judaic modes of discourse. The general characterization of the interplay of Halakhah and Aggadah defines the interior dynamics of Rabbinic Judaism and forms the principal task of systemic analysis of that Judaism. In the Rabbinic manner, this book works from the case to the rule. (Publishers description) Subjects: Animals in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Tradition (Judaism) Jewish law. Aggada. Judaism - Doctrines. Talmud. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-10) Xx
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
RABBINIC JUDAISM : THE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF ITS FORMATIVE AGE, 70-600 C.E.
First edition. Original boards. 8vo, 408 pages, 25 cm. SUBJECTS: Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425. Litte? Rature rabbinique -- Histoire et critique chre? Tiennes. Judai? Sme -- Histoire -- 10-425 (Pe? Riode talmudique) Judaism -- Talmudic period. Rabbinical literature. Rabbijnse literatuur. Jodendom. Rabbinismus. Geschichte 70-600. Rabbinische Literatur. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (NEUSNER-4-2)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
RABBINIC JUDAISM: DISPUTES AND DEBATES: FIRST SERIES
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVI, 284 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Contents: 1. The American Contribution to Scholarship on Rabbinic Judaism in the Context of the History of Judaism in the Ancient World - 2. The Three Stages in the Formation of Rabbinic Writings - 3. Describing the Tosefta: A Systematic Account - 4. The Hermeneutics of the Law in Rabbinic Judaism: Mishnah, Midrash, Talmuds - 5. Organizing the Past - 6. Stern's Parables - 7. Shanks's Parallel History - 8. Feldman's Jews and Gentiles - 9. From Historical to Paradigmatic Thinking: Yerushalmi's Zakhor Revisited. South Florida studies in the history of Judaism no. 107. Subjects: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425 Historiography. Rabbinical literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. Judaism - History - Book reviews. Jewish learning and scholarship - United States. Great condition. (NEUSNER-1-8)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
RABBINIC POLITICAL THEORY: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE MISHNAH
Softbound. 8vo. XXII, 262 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Neusner begins his study with a modification of Weber's categories for a theory of politics: myth, institutions, administration, passion, responsibility, and proportion. Detailing the Mishnah's conception of politics, Neusner considers what he calls the stable and static structure and system through comparison with Aristotle. Although Aristotle's Politics and the Mishnah share a common economic theory based on the fundamental unit of the householder, they diverge in their conceptions of political structure and order. Aristotle embeds economics within political economy, while, Neusner argues, the Mishnah presents the anomaly of an economics separated from politics. Using modern political terms, this study explicates the complicated politics developed by the philosopher-theologians of the Mishnah. It is a first-rate contribution to our understanding of the intersection of politics, political philosophy, and the Mishnaic system. (Publishers description) . Subjects: Politics in rabbinical literature. Mishnah - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-31)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
READING AND BELIEVING: ANCIENT JUDAISM AND CONTEMPORARY GULLIBILITY
Softbound. 8vo. 129 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 113. Subjects: Judaism - History - To 70 A. D. - Historiography. Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425 - Historiography. Light wear to wraps. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-50)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
RUTH RABBAH: AN ANALYTICAL TRANSLATION
Original Cloth. 8vo. XII, 209 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 183. Subjects: Bible. Ruth - Commentaries - Early works to 1800. Midrash rabbah. Ruth. English. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-35)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
SCHOOL, COURT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: JUDAISM AND ITS INSTITUTIONS IN TALMUDIC BABYLONIA
Original Cloth. 8vo. XV, 306 pages. 25 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 83. Subjects: Talmudic academies. Rabbinical courts - Iraq - Babylonia. Rabbis - Iraq - Babylonia - Office. Jews - Iraq - Babylonia - Politics and government. Schoolleven. Gerechtshoven. Rabbijnen. Administratieve organisatie. Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-47)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
SCRIPTURES OF THE ORAL TORAH: SANCTIFICATION AND SALVATION IN THE SACRED BOOKS OF JUDAISM : AN ANTHOLOGY
Original Cloth. 8vo. 396 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Offers a new translation of the Mishnah, the Yerushalmi, Genesis Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbah, and the Bavli, and provides background information on each work. Subjects: Rabbinical literature - Translations into English. Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Clean and fresh in good jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-2-47)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY: EXILE AND RETURN IN THE HISTORY OF JUDAISM
Original Cloth. 8vo. 230 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Subjects: Judaism - History. Jewish diaspora - History - Philosophy. Jews - Restoration - History of doctrines. Light shelf wear to outer edges, otherwise fresh in good jacket. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-3-17)
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(Jt) Neusner, Jacob
SIFRA IN PERSPECTIVE: THE DOCUMENTARY COMPARISON OF THE MIDRASHIM OF ANCIENT JUDAISM
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXI, 249 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Brown Judaic studies no. 146. Subjects: Sifra (anoniem) Sifre. Midrasch. Sifra - Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Leviticus - Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Jewish. Light smudge mark on cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (NEUSNER-1-17)
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