A Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from the "Jewish Encyclopaedia" - Hardcover

Neusner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565639324 ISBN 13: 9781565639324

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Originally published at the turn of the twentieth century, The Jewish Encyclopaedia is a monumental twelve-volume resource on all aspects of Judaism. In the Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis, Jacob Neusner has selected every entry from The Jewish Encyclopaedia devoted to the rabbis of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud. Today's scholars, students, clergy, and laity will find this a valuable companion to Judaism's classic texts.

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Jacob Neusner is research professor of religion and theology at Bard College and senior fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He has published more than eight hundred books and innumerable articles, and he is editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and the three-volume Encyclopaedia of Judaism. He has also served as president of the American Academy of Religion and was appointed as a member of the National Council on the Humanities and the National Council on the Arts.

Synopsis

Recognized as "the first major statement of Judaic learning to appear in the United States" (from the preface), The Jewish Encyclopaedia, (Funk and Wagnall, New York: 1901-1906) was edited by Isadore Singer; Louis Ginzberg was editor of the rabbinic department (he taught for half a century at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America until his dea

Edition details

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565639324
• ISBN 13: 9781565639324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Neusner Jacob