The Documentary Form-history of Rabbinic Literature: The documentary forms of the Mishnah
The Documentary Form-history of Rabbinic Literature: The documentary forms of the Mishnah

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: University of South Florida

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 272

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Completes Neusner's description of the formal traits of canonical writings of Rabbinic Judaism. The first volume focuses on the Mishnah, the most formalized of all Rabbinic writings, identifying the paradigms that define the document's literary protocol. The second volume considers the successor documents of the canon and show how from the Mishnah forward, the forms of the later documents relate to those of the earlier ones. Assumes no Hebrew. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition
Building Blocks of Rabbinic Tradition

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 312

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This book responds to a question that came to the author from Professor Maren Niehoff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 'Have you written a simple introduction to your documentary theory and method, which can serve as a starting point for my students?' In this book are gathered eight of the more fundamental items of documentary theory and practice_three in theory, five in practice_for Professor Neihoff's students and anyone else who takes an interest in the formative history of Judaism. The documentary thesis of Rabbinic literature holds that the document_the Mishnah, Sifra, Lamentations, Rabbah, the Bavli, for example_forms the basic building block of the Rabbinic tradition. Excluded by that definition are sayings attributed to, and stories told about, named sages. These cannot serve in the reconstruction of the Rabbinic tradition, its literature, history, religion, and theology.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

Author: William David Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9780521219297

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Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.