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Chapters in the formative history of Judaism : current questions and enduring answers

Title
Chapters in the formative history of Judaism : current questions and enduring answers / Jacob Neusner.
ISBN
0761833854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2006.
Physical Description
viii, 396 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 07, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The vitality of rabbinic imagination: the MIshnah versus the Bible and Qumran: two comparisons
Is scripture the origin of the Halakhah?
How important was the destruction of the Second Temple in the formation of rabbinic Judaism?
How pivotal is Yavneh in the history of Judaism?
The kingdom of heaven in kindred systems, Judaic and Christian
The Mishnah's conception of the priesthood: the Aggadah versus the Halakhah
Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of tolerance?
Does classical Judaism yield a doctrine of altruism?
A documentary reading of rabbinic compositions on 586, 70, and 132-135 in the formative canon
Rabbinic literature and the Christian scriptures
The divergent discourses of rabbinic Judaism: how halakhic and aggadic documents treat the bestiary common to them both
Pirqé Abot read as a coherent theological statement
The two stages in the formation of talmudic Judaism: the literary inquiry into a historical question
Do types and forms yield a pre-history of the Bavli? Testing the results of Richard Kalmin
The Second Temple origins of the Halakhah of Besah
The integrity of the rabbinic law of purity (Mishnah-Tractate Tohorot)
Judaism and the Hebrew language
Talmudic dialectics
[Book reviews.] Daniel Boyarin, Border lines: the partition of Judaeo-Christianity
Joel M. Hoffman, In the beginning: a short history of the Hebrew language
Maren Niehoff, Philo on Jewish identity and culture
The oeuvre of Jonathan Z. Smith
Amram Tropper, Wisdom, politics, and historiography: Tractate Avot in the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East
Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Portrait of a villain: Laban the Aramean in rabbinic literature.
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