Judaism in Late Antiquity 3. Where We Stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism - Volume 4

What, in Judaism, is meant by "law" - is the fresh perspective in which this work is presented. The volume provides first an overview, followed by a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus. In a number of accounts, the different perspectives are presented in scholarly debate.

About the author

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. He has published four volumes of translation and commentary on Rabbinic treatises and, along with Jacob Neusner and William S. Green, is an editor of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (Brill 1999).
Jacob Neusner, Ph.D., Columbia University, is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He has published more than 800 books and is Editor of The Brill Reference Library of Ancient Judaism: Studies in Ancient Judaism (University Press of America); Academic Studies in the History of Judaism, Academic Studies on Religion and the Social Order, and International Studies in Formative Christianity and Judaism (all published by Global Publications, SUNY, Binghamton).

Product details

• Assisted by: Alan Avery-Peck (Editor), Jacob Neusner (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2000
• EAN: 9789004120006
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12000-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism