Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition

The Documentary Approach to the Study of Formative Judaism

By:

Jacob Neusner

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Judaism

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This book responds to a question that came to the author from Professor Maren Niehoff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 'Have you written a simple introduction to your documentary theory and method, which can serve as a starting point for my students?' In this book are gathered eight of the more fundamental items of documentary theory and practice_three in theory, five in practice_for Professor Neihoff's students and anyone else who takes an interest in the formative history of Judaism. The documentary thesis of Rabbinic literature holds that the document_the Mishnah, Sifra, Lamentations, Rabbah, the Bavli, for example_forms the basic building block of the Rabbinic tradition. Excluded by that definition are sayings attributed to, and stories told about, named sages. These cannot serve in the reconstruction of the Rabbinic tradition, its literature, history, religion, and theology.

Author Biography:

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard as well. He is a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world.

Release date NZ

October 22nd, 2007

Author

Jacob Neusner

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

308

Series

Studies in Judaism

Dimensions

152x230x24

ISBN-13

9780761838685

Product ID

5865417

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