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  • Death and the Afterlife
    Jacob Neusner
    Why does one die? How should one die? What happens after death? How do resurrection and reincarnation fit within various religious traditions?These are the four fundamental questions posed in Death and the Afterlife. The answers, from acknowledged authorities, give insights into the beliefs and traditions of these faiths and will help readers understand the similarities and dif...
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    20,49 €

  • Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    The collection Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Fourth Series commences with two historical theological essays, one on the apologetics of Judaism, the other on its soteriology. Both were written in response to invitations to contribute to collections of historical theology. Dr. Arvind Sharma of McGill University asked for the first chapter, posing a set of penetrat...
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    57,31 €

  • Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon
    Jacob Neusner
    Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon, Volume I is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age. These documents are of the first six centuries C.E. and are exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage is defined here as a man who embodies the Rabbinic system. A sage-story, then, is ...
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    57,47 €

  • The Program of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan A
    Jacob Neusner
    Of the score of documents in the Rabbinic canon that reached closure in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A (Abot de Rabbi Natan, henceforward: ARNA) proves the most difficult to classify in the canonical context. It presents a challenge because it is different in its indicative traits from any other in the Rab...
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    91,01 €

  • How the Bavli is Constructed
    Jacob Neusner
    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 ...
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    83,69 €

  • Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This collection of five essays and two book reviews draws on a half-year of work, from mid-2008 to early 2009. The collection begins with historical theological essays: one on the apologetics of Judaism, the other on its soteriology. Both were written in response to invitations to contribute to collections of historical theology. The second set of two essays deals with the cano...
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    57,39 €

  • How the Halakhah Unfolds
    Jacob Neusner
    In separate multi-volumed works, the author has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli, and compared those outlines. In addition, he has set forth the main points of the Halakhah of the topical expositions or tractates of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli and stated what he conceive...
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    83,93 €

  • Comparative Midrash
    Jacob Neusner
    The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis. It compares the rhetorical/formal and exegetical traits of two entire, kindred documents. Then, through a side by sid...
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    69,45 €

  • Comparative Midrash
    Jacob Neusner
    The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis. It compares the rhetorical/formal and exegetical traits of two entire, kindred documents. Then, through a side by sid...
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    60,03 €

  • SifrZ Zutta to Numbers
    Jacob Neusner
    Sifré 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 Sifré Zutta to Numbers, its recurrent formal traits, its paramount qualities of rhetorical and topical exposition, and its dominant logic of coherent discourse. The author plans a systematic c...
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    73,56 €

  • A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part 1
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. 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. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven ...
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    29,42 €

  • A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part III
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. 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. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven ...
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    42,76 €

  • A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part V
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. 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. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven ...
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    49,41 €

  • Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008. It begins with two Halakhic essays, one on the category-formations of the Halakhah and how to account for the ones that we do not have but ought to have anticipated. The argument proceeds to another way of formulating the historical problem of the Talmud, its roots...
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    62,48 €

  • A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. 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. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven ...
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    50,26 €

  • Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi
    Jacob Neusner
    In 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 whether the Yerushalmi yields a comparable repertoire of fixed patterns of analysis. In covering four tractates, Neusner first presents a tractate of the Yerushalmi and inductively define...
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    132,15 €

  • Persia and Rome in Classical Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This book examines the representation of Rome and Persia (Iran) in the successive groups of documents that comprise the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity. ...
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    65,61 €

  • A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part II
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. 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. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven ...
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    37,75 €

  • The Treasury of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries...
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    79,18 €

  • The Treasury of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This is the third volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries...
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    110,27 €

  • The Treasury of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centurie...
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    84,53 €

  • Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They were prisoners of secular time, subject to the movement and laws of history in its...
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    35,72 €

  • Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They were prisoners of secular time, subject to the movement and laws of history in its...
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    58,50 €

  • Women and Families
    Jacob Neusner
    Women and Families explores the complex roles of women in Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Each religion specifies a positive set of virtues, but these imply a negative set as well. If the virtuous woman is a faithful wife and a nurturing mother, then what does each religion say to a woman who remains celibate, childless, or unmarried? What about the circle...
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    23,16 €

  • Sacred Texts and Authority
    Jacob Neusner
    A man takes the Qur’an in his hand, carefully pronouncing each syllable of Arabic, repeating the language of Allah. A family gathers together to read the story of Christ’s passion. A young nun pores over the sutras, searching for an answer.Sacred Texts and Authority probes what five great world religions mean by the term ''sacred text.'' For many religions a text might include ...
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    23,16 €

  • Justice, Humanity and Social Toleration
    Jacob Neusner / Xunwu Chen
    Justice, Humanity and Social Toleration develops the concept of normative justice as setting human affairs right in accordance with the principles of human rights, human goods, and human bonds. Defending the ideas of global justice and modernity, Professor Xunwu Chen explores social toleration and democracy as embodiments of normative justice in our time. The approach of this t...
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    64,26 €

  • Evil and Suffering
    Jacob Neusner
    Do Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims tend to experience pain in fundamentally different ways? Are suffering and human evil equally difficult problems in these particular religious traditions? How is each person to deal with or overcome suffering?In Evil and Suffering, acknowledged experts in each religion offer clear answers to these and similar questions. Throug...
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    22,28 €

  • The Rabbis, the Law, and the Prophets
    Jacob Neusner
    Here 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 received and made its own an important segment of the Israelite Scripture, the Halakhic or legal heritage of Prophecy. The author characterizes the traits of Rabbinic Judaism that c...
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    84,33 €

  • Rabbinic Theology and Israelite Prophecy
    Jacob Neusner
    Rabbinic Judaism affirms the Prophetic heritage and makes it its own. Indeed, the Rabbis of the formative age and canon of Rabbinic Judaism looked to Prophecy along with the Torah and the Writings to define and sustain their system. We may reasonably label the Judaic religious system portrayed in the Rabbinic canon as Prophetic-Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaism that the Rabbis form...
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    58,80 €

  • Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition
    Jacob Neusner
    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 ...
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    85,91 €


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