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A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, William Scott Green, and Gary G. Porton. - 1 online resource (xiii, 430 pages) : illustrations (color) - Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 43 . - The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 43. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning / The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis / Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings / “It Is Time to Act for the Lord”: In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel / Tent of Meeting as Bet Ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel / Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis / Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation / “The Weaver of Midrash in Performance”: Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim / The “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It / Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud / How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah / Varieties of Religious Visualizations / Vayavo Ya’acov Shalem / The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement / Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism / Jesus Talks Back / Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner / The American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism”: Jacob Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism / Intentionality and Meaning / Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse / The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon / Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts / Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References -- Index of Cited Authors -- Index of Subjects. William Scott Green , Alan J. Avery-Peck , Bruce Chilton and Gary G. Porton -- Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Judith R. Baskin -- Craig A. Evans -- Paul V.M. Flesher -- Joel Gereboff -- William Scott Green -- Martin S. Jaffee -- Peter J. Haas -- Baruch A. Levine -- Gary G. Porton -- Tzvee Zahavy -- Herbert Basser -- Bruce Chilton -- David Kraemer -- Amy-Jill Levine -- Elliot R. Wolfson -- Shaul Magid -- Robert M. Berchman -- Th. Emil Homerin -- Aaron W. Hughes -- Roger Brooks --

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In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.

ISBN: 9789004284289

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004284289 DOI

LCCN: 2014032280

Subjects--Personal Names:
Neusner, Jacob, 1932-
Neusner, Jacob, 1932-

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Talmud--Evidences, authority, etc.
Talmud.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
10 - 425

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.
Authority--Religious aspects.
Judaism--Talmudic period.
Rabbinical literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

LC Class. No.: BM496.6 / .L44 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 296.1/206