Major Trends in Formative Judaism (Studies in Judaism) - Hardcover

Neusner, Jacob

9780761823742: Major Trends in Formative Judaism (Studies in Judaism)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761823743 ISBN 13: 9780761823742

Publisher: University Press of America, 2002

The main foci of this collection are theories of Rabbinic category-formation, on the one side, and literary-analytical problems, on the other. PART ONE: How a system such as animates the Rabbinic canon selects and organizes its data forms the key to understanding the cogency of the whole: what data register, what do not? PART TWO: The problems of literature now center on those compositions and even compositions of a given document that ignore the documentary protocol of the compilation in which they occur. PART THREE: The four ways in which an author of a composition for Rabbinic compilation could link sentence to sentence, thought to thought, to form a coherent statement thus the 'logics of coherent discourse.'

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Synopsis:

Neusner resumes a series of volumes he began in the middle 1980s with two volumes of essays he has written over the past two or three years. His main interest remains the history of religion with special reference to the formative history of Judaism and its theology and law. Within that framework, the 14 essays of the Fourth Series investigate lite

About the Author:

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

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