A Legacy of Learning : Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner

Gary Porton

ISBN 10: 9004284273 / ISBN 13: 9789004284272

Published by Brill Okt 2014, 2014

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Neuware - In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Legacy of Learning : Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004284273
• ISBN 13: 9789004284272
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 163H x 28D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 816 grams

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Synopsis

In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.

About the Author

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College.

William Scott Green is Professor of Religious Studies, Senior Vice Provost, and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Miami.

Gary G. Porton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana.