A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck [and three others].

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
1 online resource (446 p.)

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Series
  • Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 43. [More in this series]
  • Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; Volume 43
Summary note
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.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Preliminary Material
  • Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning / William Scott Green , Alan J. Avery-Peck , Bruce Chilton and Gary G. Porton
  • The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational Analysis / Alan J. Avery-Peck
  • Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings / Judith R. Baskin
  • “It Is Time to Act for the Lord”: In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel / Craig A. Evans
  • Tent of Meeting as Bet Ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of Israel / Paul V.M. Flesher
  • Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis / Joel Gereboff
  • Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation / William Scott Green
  • “The Weaver of Midrash in Performance”: Notes to an Oral-Performative Translation of Sifre Devarim / Martin S. Jaffee
  • The “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We Knew It / Peter J. Haas
  • Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud / Baruch A. Levine
  • How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in Genesis Rabbah / Gary G. Porton
  • Varieties of Religious Visualizations / Tzvee Zahavy
  • Vayavo Ya’acov Shalem / Herbert Basser
  • The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement / Bruce Chilton
  • Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism / David Kraemer
  • Jesus Talks Back / Amy-Jill Levine
  • Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Jacob Neusner / Elliot R. Wolfson
  • The American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism”: Jacob Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism / Shaul Magid
  • Intentionality and Meaning / Robert M. Berchman
  • Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse / Th. Emil Homerin
  • The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach: A Prolegomenon / Aaron W. Hughes
  • Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts / Roger Brooks
  • Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References
  • Index of Cited Authors
  • Index of Subjects.
ISBN
90-04-28428-1
OCLC
  • 887187915
  • 894170771
Doi
  • 10.1163/9789004284289
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