Midrash in Context: Exegesis in Formative Judaism: The Foundations of Judaism: Method, Teleology, Doctrine (Part One: Method)

Neusner, Jacob

ISBN 10: 0800607082 / ISBN 13: 9780800607081

Published by Fortress Press, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Midrash in Context: Exegesis in Formative Judaism: The Foundations of Judaism: Method, Teleology, Doctrine (Part One: Method)
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800607082
• ISBN 13: 9780800607081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book is the first volume in Jacob Neusner's ground-breaking trilogy, "The Foundations of Judaism: Method, Teleology, Doctrine." This Part One - "Method" - offers the first systematic explanation of why the midrash collections - that is, books of rabbinical exegeses of Scripture - were written. Neusner investigates the circumstances in which the earliest midrash collections were organized around the Pentateuch, and explains both the purpose of the work and its historical context.

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.