Studying Classical Judaism: A Primer

Forsideomslag
Westminster John Knox Press, 1. jan. 1991 - 208 sider

What do we know about the history, literature, and religion of Judaism in its formative age? How do we know it, and why does it matter? In Studying Classical Judaism, renowned scholar and author Jacob Neusner addresses these and other important questions. Applying many of the same methods Christian scholars use to study Christianity, Neusner outlines what we now know about ancient Judaism. He points out the core-belief of normative Judaism and reveals the methodological underpinnings of the most cogent and up-to-date interpretations of the texts that determined classical Judaism.

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Indhold

Preface
11
Prologue
17
From Judaism to Judaisms
27
From Yeshiva and Seminary to University
37
Modes of Thought Old and
43
The Intellectual Failure of Critical Exegesis
50
Viewing Religions as Systems Illustrated
60
HistoricalCritical Method in the Study
66
History as a Cultural Indicator
97
The Theological Uses of History
107
17
111
The First Two Stages
113
The God of a Philosophical Judaism
129
Judaisms City of God
161
Epilogue
175
General Index
203

New Testament Scholarship on History
74
The Bankruptcy of HistoricalCritical Method
91

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Om forfatteren (1991)

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Bard Center Fellow at the Bard College Institute of Advanced Theology in Annondale-on-Hudson, New York. He is the author of several books, including Judaism When Christianity Began, The Emergence of Judaism, and the popular textbook World Religions in America, all of which are available from WJK.

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