Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series: Systemic Perspectives

by Jacob Neusner

Overview

This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011¬–2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761859383
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/14/2012
Series:	Studies in Judaism
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.99(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is a leading figure in the American academic study of religion. He revolutionized the study of Judaism and brought it into the field of religion, and he built intellectual bridges between Judaism and other religions, thereby laying the groundwork for durable understanding and respect among religions. He has advanced the careers of younger scholars and teachers through his teaching and publication programs. Neusner’s influence on the study of Judaism and religion is broad, powerful, distinctive, and enduring.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The History of the Halakhah of Besah
2. Scarce Resources: Philosophical Economics Reproduced
3. Orthodoxy and Heresy. The Debate with Daniel Boyarin
4. War in the Halakhah, Peace in the Aggadah
5. Study of Torah versus Making a Living
6. Rabbinic Theology: A System
7. The Restoration of Israel: Soteriology in Rabbinic Judaism
8. Just War in Classical Judaism
9. Law and Religion in Judaism: How Judaism Exemplifies the Principles of Relationship between Attitude and Action