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  • ISRAEL AND ZION IN AMERICAN JUDAISM
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    ISRAEL AND ZION IN AMERICAN JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    First published in 1993, Israel and Zion in American Judaism: The Zionist Fulfillment is a collection of 24 essays exploring the concept of who or what is "Israel" following the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948 and the subsequent crisis of self-definition in American Jewry. ...

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  • NEUSNER ON JUDAISM
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    NEUSNER ON JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    Jacob Neusner has published more than 1000 books and articles, scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is one of the most published humanities scholars in the world. Over a period of fifty years he has made significant, insightful and challenging contributions to the study of Rabbinic Judaism, particularly in the disciplines covered in the three volumes which make...

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  • THE LITERATURE OF FORMATIVE JUDAISM
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    THE LITERATURE OF FORMATIVE JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    First published in 1991. This is Volume XI, Part II of a set of twenty volumes of essays and articles on the religion, history and literature on the origins of Judaism. This text looks at to the canon, or holy literature, of Judaism. That literature covers what is called “the Oral Torah.” To understand the concept of the Oral Torah, we have to return to the generative myth of t...

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  • JUDAISM: THE BASICS
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    JUDAISM: THE BASICS
    JACOB NEUSNER
    The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition. Key topics covered include: the Torah Israel – the state and its people Passover Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and...

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  • THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH DISCOURSE
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    THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH DISCOURSE
    BRUCE CHILTON / JACOB NEUSNER
    The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse argues that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes and tasks, Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument. The authors explore how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the searc...

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  • JUDAISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
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    JUDAISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
    BRUCE CHILTON / JACOB NEUSNER
    Judaism in the New Testament explains how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as they professed faith in Christ. These two extremely distinguished scholars introduce readers to the plurality of Judaisms of the period. They show, by examining a variety of texts, how the major figures of the New Testament reflect...

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  • JUDAISM AND ISLAM IN PRACTICE
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    JUDAISM AND ISLAM IN PRACTICE
    JONATHAN E. BROCKOPP / JACOB NEUSNER / TAMARA SONN
    Judaism and Islam compare because they concur that God cares deeply not only about attitudes but actions, not only about what one says to God but how one conducts affairs at home and in the village. 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 we...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM
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    THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF JUDAISM
    ALAN AVERY-PECK / JACOB NEUSNER
    Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include: *The religion's forms and history *Its institutions, religious practices and life cycle rites *Key texts and people, symbols and ho...

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  • THE FOUR STAGES OF RABBINIC JUDAISM
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    THE FOUR STAGES OF RABBINIC JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism.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 o...

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  • COMPARING RELIGIONS THROUGH LAW
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    COMPARING RELIGIONS THROUGH LAW
    JACOB NEUSNER / TAMARA SONN
    Comparing Religions Through Law offers a ground- breaking study which compares these two religions through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the dominant structure is law. Comparing Religions Through Law presents an innovative and sometimes controversial study of the comparisons and contrasts between the two religions and offers an example of how comp...

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  • TYPES OF AUTHORITY IN FORMATIVE CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM
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    TYPES OF AUTHORITY IN FORMATIVE CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM
    BRUCE CHILTON / JACOB NEUSNER
    Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner study the points of comparisons and contrast between formative Christianity and Judaism. By identifying three categories of authority in each of the two religious worlds, they show how they have both worked in compelling or failing to get someone to do a given action.The arguments are introduced by a general discussion of the founding figures of ...

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  • JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES
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    JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES
    BRUCE CHILTON / JACOB NEUSNER
    Jewish and Christian Doctrines presents a concise and lucid introduction to the foundations of Judaism and Christianity. The authors explore key documents ofJudaism and Christianity to elucidate and illuminate the doctrinal issues which the documents raise and to examine the similarities and differences between the two faiths. ...

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  • JUDAISM AND SCRIPTURE
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    JUDAISM AND SCRIPTURE
    JACOB NEUSNER
    This groundbreaking work continues Jacob Neusner's multi-volume examination of the main texts of Judaism in its formative years. The first two parts of the project--'Judaism: The Evidence of the Yerushalmi'--examined the Mishnah and the Talmud of the Land of Israel and placed them in the social, intellectual, and religious contexts of their time. In 'Judaism and Scripture' Neus...

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  • ANDROGYNOUS JUDAISM
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    ANDROGYNOUS JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    America's foremost scholar on formative Judaism examines the issue of gender as it appears in the corpus of rabbinic literature and arrives at some provocative conclusions. While the structure of Judaism based on the dual Torah is clearly masculine in orientation, the substructure--the religious system that shapes its values and perception--is androgynous, an individual conjunc...

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  • JUDAISM
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    JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    Jacob Neusner has--in over sixty scholarly works, fourteen textbooks, and thirteen collections of essays--laid the foundation and completed the structure for a new understanding of the history of Judaism. The present volume is the capstone effort to date in this endeavor. Neusner reconstructs and interprets the Mishnah's intellectual history, presenting a picture of the beginn...

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  • WHAT IS MIDRASH?
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    WHAT IS MIDRASH?
    JACOB NEUSNER
    This book introduces Midrash both in general and through many examples of the kinds of Midrash that flourished among ancient Judaism. Neusner, as a preeminent authority on the subject, lays special emphasis upon the exegesis of Scripture produced by the Judaism of the dual Torah, oral and written. ...

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  • JUDAISM AS PHILOSOPHY
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    JUDAISM AS PHILOSOPHY
    JACOB NEUSNER
    The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament) and the foundation of the two Talmuds and of all Judaism thereafter. According to eminent religion scholar Jacob Neusner, the key to understanding the Mishnah is to read it as philosophy, in accord with the generally accepted understanding of philosophy in its...

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  • RABBINIC LITERATURE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
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    RABBINIC LITERATURE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
    JACOB NEUSNER
    Here is a sustained criticism of the rather facile use of rabbinic literature by New Testament scholarship. In particular, Neusner addresses the writings of Helmut Koester, Samuel Sandmel, Reginald Fuller, Harvey Falk, Geza Vermes, E.P. Sanders, S.J.D. Cohen, Morton Smith, John P. Meier, and Brad H. Young. The book begins with a study of the characteristics of rabbinic literat...

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  • THE MISHNAH
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    THE MISHNAH
    JACOB NEUSNER
    A leading scholar of the formative age and writings of Judaism here formulates a theory of the Mishnah (one of the earliest dated sources of Judaism): what it is, how it should be read, and why it is of considerable interest in the study of religious conceptions of the social order. Each of the book's chapters are amply illustrated with texts that have been freshly translated b...

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  • TELLING TALES
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    TELLING TALES
    JACOB NEUSNER
    Jacob Neusner makes the astonishing claim that Judeo-Christian dialogue is nonexistent. . . . This book is substantive. It suggests what both parties [Christians and Jews] might do and say as first works and words when they undertake dialogue. If they are realistic, frank, aware of their own stories, they can further such dialogue. If they keep making up 'soft versions' of thei...

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  • THE TALMUD
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    THE TALMUD
    JACOB NEUSNER
    For the uninitiated - and even for seasoned scholars - the Talmud is a daunting sea of literature. Jacob Neusner in this book offers guidance in approaching the rabbinic writings, analyzing the ancient teachings, and interpreting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism. The result is a vivid introduction to one of the great documents of religion in society. We...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN JUDAISM
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    INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    The character of any religion as it is lived and practiced can be quite different from the prescriptions and ideals of its traditions and rituals. This bifurcation can be found also in the tension between the ideas people hold and the things they do. Jacob Neusner explains in the preface: The issue I address in these pages for a broad audience of people who care about religion...

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  • GOD IN THE WORLD
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    GOD IN THE WORLD
    JACOB NEUSNER / BRUCE D. CHILTON
    The authors address the issue of God in this world which, in the classical documents of formative Judaism, encompasses the diverse ways in which we meet God in the here and now. The counterpart in Christianity is meeting God in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. As heirs to the common scripture of ancient Israel, both Judaism and Christianity identify humanity as the worldly imag...

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  • TORAH THROUGH THE AGES
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    TORAH THROUGH THE AGES
    JACOB NEUSNER
    This brief history of Judaism not only seeks to tell the story of Judaism (or of Judaisms) but to define it in such a way as to make it possible for the reader to grasp and make sense of Judaism, all at once, on its own terms. Professor Neusner accomplishes this task by selecting the central Jewish symbol of Torah and describing its role down through the ages. First Torah is d...

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  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF JUDAISM
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    THE TRANSFORMATION OF JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    An eminent scholar of the history of Judaism, Jacob Neusner shows in this work how Judaism changed from a philosophy to a religion between 200 and 400 C.E. 'The Transformation of Judaism' is a work both revolutionary in its method and unprecedented in its results. Comparing earlier and later sets of Judaic writings, Neusner sets forth how philosophy - abstract, elegant, orderly...

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  • REVELATION
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    REVELATION
    JACOB NEUSNER / BRUCE D. CHILTON
    Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great traditions. The authors compare and contrast the paramount theological categories of Judaism and Christianity, specifically Torah, God, and Israel for Judaism, and Bible, God, and church for Christianity. 'Revelation' is the first of...

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  • CHILDREN OF THE FLESH, CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE
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    CHILDREN OF THE FLESH, CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE
    JACOB NEUSNER
    In this provocative follow-up to his enormously influential ' A Rabbi Talks with Jesus', Jacob Neusner challenges the apostle Paul to debate the true meaning and significance of Judaism. Drawing new boundaries for Jewish-Christian dialogue, Neusner contends that Paul's misinterpretation of Judaism - a misinterpretation perpetuated today by many Christians and Jews - has resulte...

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  • FELLOWSHIP IN JUDAISM
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    FELLOWSHIP IN JUDAISM
    JACOB NEUSNER
    These essays examine the sociology of Judaism in the last decades of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. The author discerns two kinds of religious fellowship, one constituted by the 'haber' (translated 'fellow'), based on observance of certain religious laws, and the other by the 'talmid hakham' (translated 'sage'), based on concern for study and application of the Torah. He contr...

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  • CLASSICAL CHRISTIANITY AND RABBINIC JUDAISM
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    CLASSICAL CHRISTIANITY AND RABBINIC JUDAISM
    BRUCE D. CHILTON / JACOB NEUSNER
    Among the world's religions, Christianity and Judaism are the most symmetrical. But in our day of religious tolerance, a tendency to overlook the vital differences between the two religions in the name of good will can undermine constructive Jewish-Christian dialogue. In this book, Bruce D. Chilton describes early Christian thought and Jacob Neusner describes early Judaic thou...

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  • JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE
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    JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE
    JACOB NEUSNER
    With the conversion of Constantine in 312, Christianity began a period of political and cultural dominance that it would enjoy until the twentieth century. Jacob Neusner contradicts the prevailing view that following Christianity's ascendancy, Judaism continued to evolve in isolation. He argues that because of the political need to defend its claims to religious authenticity, J...

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