The Mishnah, The: Religious Perspectives (Handbook of Oriental Studies): 45 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) - Hardcover

Neusner, Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004114920 ISBN 13: 9789004114920

Publisher: Brill, 1999

Synopsis

Condensing research concerning questions of religion which encompass the social history of ideas and the religious uses of language, this book deals with three questions: the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture, the relationship of the religious ideas people hold to the world in which they live, and the religious meaning of the formalization of language that characterizes the Mishnah in particular. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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Synopsis

Condensing research concerning questions of religion which encompass the social history of ideas and the religious use of language, this text deals with: the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture; the relationship of the religious ideas people hold to their world; and the religious meaning of the formalization of language that characterizes the Mishnah in particular. In discussing how the Mishnah relates to Scripture an analysis is presented, based on a systematic application of a single taxonomic programme. Then an examination is made of how the stages in the unfolding of the Halakhah of the Mishnah relate to the principal events of the times which delinte those stages. Finally attention is given to methods of interpreting the rhetorical forms of the Mishnah in the context of the social culture laid bare by the socio-linguistics of the documents concerned.

About the Author

Jacob Neusner, Ph.D. (1960), Columbia University, is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College. In a remarkable career spanning more than 35 years, Professor Neusner has taught and conducted research at centers in North America, Asia and Europe including Dartmouth College, Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Cambridge University, the University of Gottingen and Uppsala University. Honored by awards from many of the world's scholarly societies, his prodigious corpus of published work includes scores of seminal books and essays on Jewish life, law, ideas and tradition which have made him one of the most influential figures in his field in the modern period.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9004114920
• ISBN 13: 9789004114920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249