Religion and Law

by Jacob Neusner

Published 1 January 1996


Concludes a series that Neusner characterizes not as an exhaustive history of Babylonian Jewry and Judaism, but an effort to promote the understanding of a few basic problems of Talmudic historiography and religion. He extends the account past the beginning of the sixth century, when most historians
















Completes Neusner's description of the formal traits of canonical writings of Rabbinic Judaism. The first volume focuses on the Mishnah, the most formalized of all Rabbinic writings, identifying the paradigms that define the document's literary protocol. The second volume considers the successor doc