How the Halakhah Unfolds

by Jacob Neusner

Overview

In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and those outlines of the two Talmuds have been compared. In addition, for each subject the main points of the Halakhah of the topical expositions or tractates of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli have been set forth. The theological message of the respective tractates has been spelled out. Here, we follow a single tractate through the principal documents of formative Judaism as these have already presented them. How the academic commentaries, outlines and comparisons, and theological summaries yield a systematic account of the Halakhah in its documentary unfolding is thus fully exposed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761836186
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/15/2006
Series:	Studies in Judaism
Pages:	612
Product dimensions:	6.01(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is a prolific scholar and leading figure in the American academic study of Judaism in particular and religion in general. He is Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey and Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, England.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Mishnah Tractate Abodah Zarah Chapter 3 Tosefta Tractate Abodah Zarah Chapter 4 Yerushalmi Tractate Abodah Zarah Part 5 Preface Chapter 6 Bavli Tractate Abodah Zarah Chapter 7 Yerushalmi-Bavli Abodah Zarah Systematically Compared Chapter 8 Abodah Zarah Viewed Whole