Neusner, Jacob 1932-2016

Overview

Works:	3,054 works in 8,514 publications in 5 languages and 206,299 library holdings
Genres:	Introductions Criticism, interpretation, etc History Sources Conference papers and proceedings Comparative studies Bibliography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Honoree, Creator, Author of introduction, Interviewer, 340, Scribe, pub
Classifications:	BM503.5, 296

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Jacob Neusner

Jacob Neusner : an American Jewish iconoclast by Aaron W Hughes( Book )
Jacob Neusner on religion : the example of Judaism by Aaron W Hughes( )
Contexts and constituencies : the diverse responsibilities of higher Jewish learning by Jacob Neusner( Book )
A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner by Alan J Avery-Peck( Book )
Shenee̓mar : the place of scripture citation in the Mishna by Peter Acker Pettit( )

Wolitz, Seth L., papers by Seth L Wolitz( )
Uczeń Jezusa rozmawia z rabinem by Mirosław Rucki( Book )
Arthur A. Cohen papers by Arthur A Cohen( Visual )
Renowned Judaic Studies scholar recruited to USF faculty by David Liller( Book )
Salo Wittmayer Baron papers by Salo W Baron( )
Jacob in the lion's den by Debra Shore( Book )
Uncommon scold by Doug Riggs( Book )
William G. Braude correspondence by William G Braude( )
Michael A. Meyer papers by Michael A Meyer( )
An evaluation of Jacob Neusner's translation of tractates Horayoth, Niddah and Abodah Zarah of the Talmud Jerushalmi by Max Resnick( Book )
Neusner translating Talmud : a review essay by Edward A Goldman( )
Jacob Neusner and the Jewish future by Michael Berenbaum( Book )
Leonard Fein papers by Leonard J Fein( )
Jacob Neusner's approach applied to an exemplary unit on Judaism for secondary education teachers by Elizabeth Otto Daniell( )
Wilfred Cantwell Smith papers by Wilfred Cantwell Smith( )

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Most widely held works by Jacob Neusner

Rabbinic narrative : a documentary perspective by Jacob Neusner( )

35 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 4,115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: 1 what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? 2 how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age

Comparing religions through law : Judaism and Islam by Jacob Neusner( )

26 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 2,640 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Comparing Religions through Law is a ground breaking study that compares Judaism and Islam through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the shared structure is the law

World religions in America : an introduction by Jacob Neusner( Book )

26 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Looks at the various religions in the United States and how they shape American life

A Rabbi talks with Jesus : an intermillennial, interfaith exchange by Jacob Neusner( )

33 editions published between 1993 and 2014 in English and German and held by 2,136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Straightforward terms concerning why, while Christians believe in Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven, Jews believe in the Torah of Moses and a kingdom of priests and holy people on earth

Judaism and Islam in practice : a sourcebook by Jacob Neusner( )

22 editions published between 1999 and 2013 in English and held by 2,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In this sourcebook, the authors have selected key passages from the laws of Judaism and Islam which allow a close examination of their mode of expression and medium of thought as well as the substance of the laws themselves. The selected passages concentrate on areas critical to the life of piety and faith as actually practiced within the two faith-communities - the relationship between the believer and God, between and among believers, at home in marriage, outside the home in the community and between the faithful and the infidels (for Islam) or idolaters (for Judaism)." "Judaism and Islam in Practice presents an invaluable collection of sources of Jewish and Islamic law and provides a unique analysis of the similarities and contrasts between the two faiths."--Jacket

Jewish and Christian doctrines : the classics compared by Jacob Neusner( )

19 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in English and held by 2,075 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The reader's guide to the Talmud by Jacob Neusner( )

16 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 1,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The theology of the halakhah by Jacob Neusner( )

16 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 1,964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The intellectual foundations of Christian and Jewish discourse : the philosophy of religious argument by Jacob Neusner( )

19 editions published between 1997 and 2006 in English and held by 1,920 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This provocative volume provides a unique and controversial analysis of the genesis and evolution of Judaeo-Christian intellectual thought

The four stages of rabbinic Judaism by Jacob Neusner( )

19 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in English and held by 1,846 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This comprehensive book provides an introduction to Rabbinic Judaism, defined as the Judaism built on the story of God's revelation to Moses of the Torah at Sinai." "Jacob Neusner outlines and examines the four stages in which the initial period of the historical development of Rabbinic Judaism divides, beginning with the Pentateuch and ending with its definitive and normative statement in the Talmud of Babylonia. He traces the development of Rabbinic Judaism by exploring the relationships between and among the cognate writings which embody its formative history."--Jacket

The missing Jesus : rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament by Bruce Chilton( )

14 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 1,827 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The way of Torah; an introduction to Judaism by Jacob Neusner( Book )

49 editions published between 1900 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Invitation to the Talmud; a teaching book by Jacob Neusner( Book )

49 editions published between 1973 and 2003 in English and Hebrew and held by 1,746 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Mishnah in contemporary perspective by Alan J Avery-Peck( )

13 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 1,722 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This second volume of a two-part project displays the best of contemporary Israeli, North American, and European scholarship on the Mishnah, revealing the intellectual vitality of scholarship in all three centers of learning. Because of the many viewpoints included here, it is the most representative selection of contemporary Mishnah-study available in any collection in a Western language

When Judaism and Christianity began : essays in memory of Anthony J. Saldarini by Anthony J Saldarini( )

23 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The theology of the oral Torah : revealing the justice of God by Jacob Neusner( )

17 editions published between 1999 and 2014 in English and held by 1,701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

He argues that in working this proposition out in rich detail the classical texts generate the central rabbinic problem: how can the conflicting traits inherent in the proposition be resolved?"--Jacket

The halakhah : historical and religious perspectives by Jacob Neusner( )

14 editions published in 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Types of authority in formative Christianity and Judaism by Bruce Chilton( )

20 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in English and held by 1,610 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Two well-known scholars, in New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism respectively, ask the question: what does it mean to translate a theory of God's presence in the social order into a concrete doctrine of everyday authority? What sort of politics, what theory of ongoing and everyday religious encounter, and what modes of persuasive intellectual exchange embody the conviction that God is present among us and that our community is made holy by obedient response to that Presence? The holy community, the presence of God's representatives on earth, and the compelling power of certain kinds of evidence and arguments - these provide the outlines of an answer to that question. Politics come first. But both communities also looked to the authority of God embodied in persons, validated by miraculous events, or otherwise certified by gifts of the spirit. And, finally, both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism deemed Christ and the Torah respectively to embody the logos of reason or the rules of right thought. Both maintained that well-expounded, probative evidence and compelling argument formed the best source of authority - compulsion exercised from within, by intellect."--Jacket

In the aftermath of catastrophe : founding Judaism, 70 to 640 by Jacob Neusner( )

8 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 1,587 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Judaism and Christianity : new directions for dialogue and understanding by Alan J Avery-Peck( )

9 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 1,576 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Top scholars in Judaic and Christian studies treat the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity, reflecting on how the two faiths have related to and been shaped by each other as they evolved in shared historical and cultural contexts, even as each has maintained its own distinctive ideologies and beliefs

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