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Informationen zum Autor 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 and 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 AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD 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. Klappentext This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010-2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010–2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. From History to Hermeneutics: The Talmud as a Historical Source2. History and Theology: Critically Recovering Rabbi Jesus3. War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah4. The Mishnah's Conception of the Priesthood:The Aggadah versus the Halakhah5. Rabbinic Theology: A System6. Review Notes: Rosenblum, Jordan D. Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Cambridge7. Review Notes: Shafran, Rabbi Simcha, Fire Ice Air. A Polish Jew's Memoir of Yeshiva, Siberia, America. Staten Island...
