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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 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 time and place. In this text, Neusner studies a large sample of evidence, and identifies the philosophical side of the Mishnah's system, method and message alike. The philosophical tradition in which the Mishnah takes its place, Neusner explains, utilizes the method of Aristotle to demonstrate the proposition important to Middle Platonism. While given in the form of a law code, the Mishnah sets forth a Judaic system of the social order that employs a method that in its context was distinctly philosophical in order to reach a conclusion that in its time was particularly philosophical. Demonstrated through the systematic and orderly hierarchical classification of the things of nature, the framers of the Mishnah illustrate the ultimate unity of all being emanating from the One on high. Arguing that the document's writers chose a legal form for a philosophical proposition, this book seeks to change a centuries-old way of reading the Mishnah. Judaism emerges as a sustained demonstration of the unity of all being under one God.
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Jacob Neusner holds joint appointments as Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and professor of religion at Bard College. He is the author of 'The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion', also available from Johns Hopkins.
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perfect paperback. Condition: Wie neu. XVI, 301 S. New copy. - WHAT IT MEANS TO READ A TRACTATE AS PHILOSOPHY Mishnah Tractate Meilah: Only Law, or a Study of the Physics of Mixtures? -- Reading Mishnah Tractate Meilah as Philosophy -- METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSITIONS A Philosophy of Classification -- Main Principles of Classification -- Polythetic and Hierarchical Classification -- The Genus and the Species -- Principles of Speciation -- Interstitiality and the Mixed Grid -- Mixture and Connection -- The Many and the One, The One and the Many -- THE MISHNAH IN THE CONTEXT OF GRECO-ROMAN PHILOSOPHY The Philosophical Context: The Mishnah's Method and Aristotle's Method -- The Philosophical Context: The Mishnah's Message and the Neo-Platonic Doctrine of the Unity of All Being -- The Failure of Philosophy and the Beginning of Theology -- Appendix: The Mishnah's Propositional Rhetoric and Syllogistic Logic. Important book about the Mishnah, the first canonical writing of Judaism alter the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament) and the foundation of the two Talmuds and of all Judaism thereafter. (c) wikipedia: The Mishnah or Mishna is the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions called the "Oral Torah". It is also the first major work of Rabbinic Judaism. It was redacted c. 220 CE by Judah haNasi when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions dating from Pharisaic times (536 BCE 70 CE) would be forgotten. It is thus named for being both the one written authority (codex) secondary (only) to the Tanakh as a basis for the passing of judgment, a source and a tool for creating laws, and the first of many books to complement the Bible in a certain aspect. The Mishnah is also called Shas (an acronym for Shisha Sedarim - the "six orders"), in reference to its six main divisions. Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were redacted as the Gemara, which, coupled with the Mishnah, comprise the Talmud. ISBN 9780801861604 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400. Seller Inventory # 906812
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