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Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion. The book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990.
List of contents
Part 1 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Part 2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED Part 3 INTRODUCTION Part 4 THE RECEPTION OFTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM Chapter 5 PROLOGUE TO PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL CATEGORIES Chapter 6 1. Modes of Thought: From Philosophy to Religion Chapter 7 2. Scarce Resources: Philosophical Economics Reproduced Chapter 8 3. Legitimate Violence: From Hierarchized Foci to Unitary Focus ofPower Part 9 THE FORMATION OFCOUNTERPART CATEGORIES Chapter 10 PROLOGUE TO PART TWO: COUNTERPART CATEGORIES. CATEGORICAL REFORMATION ANDTHE NEW STRUCTURE Chapter 11 4. Learning and the Category, "Torah" Chapter 12 5. The Transvaluation of Value Chapter 13 6. Empowerment and the Category, "The People Israel" Part 14 ENCHANTED JUDAISM:THE NEW STRUCTURE Chapter 15 PROLOGUE TO PART THREE: COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION OF SYSTEMS Chapter 16 7. The New Learning: The Gnostic Torah Chapter 17 8. The New Order: The Political Economy of Zekhut Chapter 18 9. Enchanted Judaism and The City of God Part 19 BIBLIOGRAPHY
About the author
Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.
Summary
Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion. The book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990.
