Studies in the History of Judaism
4 primary works • 103 total works
Combines new and reworked academic papers and conference talks in which Neusner explores the relationship of the community of Judaism to the work of its scholars as a problem in the sociology of learning as well as in past and contemporary Judaism. Among his perspectives are the Russian-Jewish momen
Aphrahat (fl. ca. 300-350) was a member of a small community of Christians within a large and flourishing Jewish region. His work Demonstrations provide the earliest and one of the best accounts of the Judaism being practiced there with little rabbinical influence. Neusner translates those parts of
Argues that the rabbis of late antiquity, in the normative law set forth in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli, liberated Israelite women by according them what Scripture had denied: the standing and powers of sentient beings; a role in critical transactions of their existence that, if not entirel