This is a book of dozen free-standing, but interrelated, essays about right ways and wrong ways in the study of a Judaism in its formative stage. Giving concrete example of both, deriving from (for…
The renewed perception of Judaism's influence Judaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, p…
What is the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture for understanding the religion of Judaism? What is the relationship between religious ideas and the world in which those ideas emerged? What is …
The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after the Hebrew Scriptures of ancient Israel (the Old Testament) and the foundation of the two Talmuds and of all Judaism thereafter. Accordin…
Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great traditions. The authors compare and contrast the pa…
Here is sustained criticism of the "rather facile use" of rabbinic literature by New Testament scholarship. In particular, the author addresses the writings of Helmut Koester, Samuel Sandmel, Regin…
The Mishnah of Judah the Patriarch, produced about 200 A.D., not only stood at the end of approximately a hundred and thirty years of rabbinic legal study, but also laid the foundations for the nex…
This brief history of judaism not only seeks to tell the story of judaism (or of Judaism) but to define it in such a way as to make it possible for the reader to grasp and make sense of Judaism, al…
About the Contributor(s): 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 90…
The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world's religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers …