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  • The Emergence of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
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    36,62 €

  • New Humanities and Academic Disciplines
    Jacob Neusner
    This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new ...
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    26,70 €

  • Fellowship in Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    These essays examine the sociology of Judaism in the last decades of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. The author discerns two kinds of religious fellowship, one constituted by the ’haber’ (translated ’fellow’), based on observance of certain religious laws, and the other by the ’talmid hakham’ (translated ’sage’), based on concern for study and application of the Torah. He contr...
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    13,84 €

  • The Talmud
    Jacob Neusner
    For the uninitiated - and even for seasoned scholars - the Talmud is a daunting sea of literature. Jacob Neusner in this book offers guidance in approaching the rabbinic writings, analyzing the ancient teachings, and interpreting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism. The result is a vivid introduction to one of the great documents of religion in society.We m...
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    25,85 €

  • Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 4
    Jacob Neusner
    The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, h...
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    26,88 €

  • Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 2
    Jacob Neusner
    The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, h...
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    26,06 €

  • Religions in Antiquity
    Jacob Neusner
    These essays were originally intended for presentation to Professor Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Before his death, in March, 1965, he knew of our plans for this volume and was gladdened by them.... The editor hopes that these papers, many of which fruitfully utilize Goodenough’s scholarship, may contribute to the critical discussion o...
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    53,65 €

  • Introduction to American Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    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 i...
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    23,67 €

  • Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 1
    Jacob Neusner
    The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, h...
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    33,47 €

  • Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 3
    Jacob Neusner
    The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, h...
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    27,75 €

  • Judaism as Philosophy
    Jacob Neusner
    The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament) and the foundation of the two Talmuds and of all Judaism thereafter. According to eminent religion scholar Jacob Neusner, the key to understanding the Mishnah is to read it as philosophy, in accord with the generally accepted understanding of philosophy in its...
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    31,81 €

  • The Transformation of Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
    An eminent scholar of the history of Judaism, Jacob Neusner shows in this work how Judaism changed from a philosophy to a religion between 200 and 400 C.E. ’The Transformation of Judaism’ is a work both revolutionary in its method and unprecedented in its results. Comparing earlier and later sets of Judaic writings, Neusner sets forth how philosophy - abstract, elegant, orderly...
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    35,13 €

  • How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples
    Jacob Neusner
    In How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples, Jacob Neusner presents a collection of essays and book reviews that identify the wrong way of conducting the academic study of Judaism. Pointing readers toward the right way to pursue the academic study of Judaism, Nuesner’s focus is on the study of the literature of Judaism and the culture of the Jewish community. ...
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    96,97 €

  • Revelation
    Bruce D. Chilton / Bruce DChilton / Jacob Neusner
    Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great traditions. The authors compare and contrast the paramount theological categories of Judaism and Christianity, specifically Torah, God, and Israel for Judaism, and Bible, God, and church for Christianity.’Revelation’ is the first of t...
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    24,96 €

  • Trading Places
    Bruce Chilton / Bruce D. Chilton / Jacob Neusner
    ’Trading Places’ turns on its head the usual scholarly consensus that early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism run parallel. These two great traditions, argue Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, intersected and ultimately traded places during the first four centuries of the Common Era. In this, the authors offer a bold new way of interpreting Western religious history.Politically, ...
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    30,94 €

  • God in the World
    Bruce D. Chilton / Bruce DChilton / Jacob Neusner
    The authors address the issue of God in this world which, in the classical documents of formative Judaism, encompasses the diverse ways in which we meet God in the here and now. The counterpart in Christianity is meeting God in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. As heirs to the common scripture of ancient Israel, both Judaism and Christianity identify humanity as the worldly imag...
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    24,96 €

  • The Mishnah
    Jacob Neusner
    A leading scholar of the formative age and writings of Judaism here formulates a theory of the Mishnah (one of the earliest dated sources of Judaism): what it is, how it should be read, and why it is of considerable interest in the study of religious conceptions of the social order. Each of the book’s chapters are amply illustrated with texts that have been freshly translated b...
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    26,58 €

  • Torah Through the Ages
    Jacob Neusner
    This brief history of Judaism not only seeks to tell the story of Judaism (or of Judaisms) but to define it in such a way as to make it possible for the reader to grasp and make sense of Judaism, all at once, on its own terms.Professor Neusner accomplishes this task by selecting the central Jewish symbol of Torah and describing its role down through the ages. First Torah is def...
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    23,67 €

  • Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament
    Jacob Neusner
    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 literatur...
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    25,80 €

  • Making God’s Word Work
    Jacob Neusner
    'The Mishnah is the crown jewel of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age,' so says the distinguished author of this book. Initiated in the aftermath of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and developed and amplified over the next five centuries, the Mishnah is the product of an age of calamity giving birth to a renewed search for recovery. As such, it speaks to every age, but t...
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    66,14 €

  • Judaism in Society
    Jacob Neusner
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    30,89 €

  • Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
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    29,34 €

  • Judaism
    Jacob Neusner
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    42,63 €

  • Stranger at Home
    Jacob Neusner
    Jacob Neusner, the preeminent Judaic scholar who is himself a Jew and a Zionist, here explores the issue he believes to be at the very heart of American Judaism: how two events remote from the experience of most American Jews have become the twin pillars upon which their world view is built. These two events, the murder of six million Jews between 1933 and 1945 and the subseque...
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    26,64 €

  • Judaism and Story
    Jacob Neusner
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    27,71 €

  • Take Judaism, for Example
    Jacob Neusner
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    27,72 €

  • Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism
    Jacob Neusner / Marvin Fox
    The three volumes of Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism by Marvin Fox (former President of the Association of Jewish Studies) present Fox’s thoughts on the relationship between Judaism and Philosophy. Coverage in volume one is Greek Philosophy and Maimonides. These select essays offer, to a new generation of scholars of Jewish thought and Philosophy, an important int...
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    94,34 €

  • The Torah and the Halakhah
    Jacob Neusner
    This 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. ...
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    145,76 €

  • Halakhic Hermeneutics
    Jacob Neusner
    This 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 of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis. ...
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    153,46 €

  • The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
    Jacob Neusner
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    24,51 €


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