Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jacob Neusner -- 16. Abbayye and Joseph, Abbayye and Pappa in Bavli Berakhot / Jacob Neusner -- Prologue Bavli Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 17. Abbayye the Glossator in Bavli Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 18. Abbayye’s Rulings in Bavli Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 19. Abbayye’s Cases in Bavli Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 20. Abbayye and Raba in Bavli Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 21. Other Conventional Pairings / Jacob Neusner -- 22. Other Conventional Pairings / Jacob Neusner -- 23. The Case of Ashi in Bavli Berakhot and Besah / Jacob Neusner -- 24. The Talmud’s Program and the Role of Named Sages / Jacob Neusner -- Introduction / Jacob Neusner -- 25. Introduction to Bavli Tractate Moʿed Qatan / Jacob Neusner -- 26. The Translation and its Signals / Jacob Neusner -- 27. Types and forms of Mishnah-Exegesis and Halakhic Analysis in Bavli Moʿed Qatan Chapter One / Jacob Neusner -- 28. Types and forms of Mishnah-Exegesis and Halakhic Analysis in Bavli Moʿed Qatan Chapter Two / Jacob Neusner -- 29. Types and forms of Mishnah-Exegesis and Halakhic Analysis in Bavli Moʿed Qatan Chapter Three / Jacob Neusner -- 30. Types and forms of Mishnah-Exegesis and Halakhah-Analysis of Bavli Tractate Moʿed Qatan / Jacob Neusner -- 31. The Distribution of types and forms of Mishnah-Exegesis and Halakhah-Analysis Among Named Authorities of Bavli Tractate Moʿed Qatan / Jacob Neusner -- 32. Does Bavli Moʿed Qatan Yield Indications of Layers of Talmudic Knowledge? / Jacob Neusner -- 33. What use Attributions? A Documentary Response / Jacob Neusner -- Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism / Jacob Neusner.

This book shows that the disputes that characterize Rabbinic writings in the formative age underscore the coherence of Rabbinic Judaism. It is in three separate monographs. The first shows that disagreements concern secondary and tertiary issues. They therefore reinforce the primary norm by identifying as moot only trivial details. The second demonstrates, alternatively, that Halakhic disputes articulate unresolved conflict over generative principles. Sometimes, in the presentation of topics of the law, disputes not only indicate the range of consensus but bring to expression conflicting alternatives, theories that claim equal validity but contradict one another. Third, in some presentations of the law and in all presentations of theology where disputes occur, disputes simply gloss details in the application of accepted principles. They form a part of the exercise of legal or theological exegesis, filling in gaps with alternative facts. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004142312).

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