Jacob Neusner

Broschiertes Buch

Theological Foundations of Rabbinic Midrash

Beschreibung

The Rabbinic Midrash, founded on a theological system and structure, is comprised by active category formations that turn facts into knowledge and knowledge into propositions of a theological character. This work defines the principal parts of the theological system that animated the Rabbinic sages' encounters with Scripture as embodied in the Rabbinic Midrash, and shows how these parts form a cogent theological system.

Autor

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780761834892
• ISBN-10: 0761834893
• Artikelnr.: 22175301

Rezensionen

This splendid book is the fruit of many years of analyzing individual rabbinic documents...The author offers insightful analyses based upon a sound methodology that is well defined and readily accessible to the reader. The Theological Foundations of Rabbinic Midrash is an indispensable work of higher criticism and scholarship for all interested in the foundational system of rabbinic thought and theology. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2007)