An Invitation to Midrash: The Workings of Rabbinic Bible Interpretation - A Teaching Book (Studies in the History of Judaism)

by Jacob Neusner

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Reprint of a 1988 work (Harper & Row). Strictly speaking, Judaism is not a biblical religion according to Neusner (religious studies, U. of South Florida; Bard College, NY), who argues that Midrash--interpretations of the oral Torah-- reveal that the written Hebrew Scriptures are but half the ancien
  • ISBN10 0060661070
  • ISBN13 9780060661076
  • Publish Date 1 December 1989
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 October 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint HarperSanFrancisco
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English