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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 The collection commences with historical theological essays: one on the apologetics of Judaism, the other on its soteriology. The second set of essays deals with the canon of Rabbinic Judaism. The final essay is an effort at constructive theology. Two brief reviews complete the collection of six months of work. Zusammenfassung The collection commences with historical theological essays: one on the apologetics of Judaism! the other on its soteriology. The second set of essays deals with the canon of Rabbinic Judaism. The final essay is an effort at constructive theology. Two brief reviews complete the collection of six months of work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 2. Canonical Narrative and the Documentary Hypothesis: From the Mishnah to the Talmuds Chapter 2 1. The Priority of Documentary Conventions in the Rabbinic Canon: The Case of the Bavli Part 3 The Documentary Hypothesis, Again Chapter 4 Preface Chapter 5 3. Testing the Documentary Hypothesis: What do we learn from Abot and ARNA about the canonical processes of formulating the Rabbinic documents? Chapter 6 4. Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavli Tractate Moed Qatan Part 7 Theological Problems Chapter 8 5. The Social Vision of Rabbinic Judaism Chapter 9 6. Rabbinic Literature and the Christian Scriptures Part 10 History? Chapter 11 7. Nissan Rubin,Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and MIdrash...
