Form-Analysis and Exegesis: A Fresh Approach to the Interpretation of Mishnah with Special Reference to Mishnah-tractate Makhshirin
Overview
In Form-Analysis and Exegesis, Neusner explains how the Makhshirin, the eighth tractate in the order Tohorot in the Mishnah and Tosefta, is organized and outlines it by chapter. He highlights the problems of the Mishnah and discusses prevailing solutions to these problems.
- Title: Form-Analysis and Exegesis: A Fresh Approach to the Interpretation of Mishnah with Special Reference to Mishnah-tractate Makhshirin
- Author: Jacob Neusner
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Mishnah. Makhshirin › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781608999194, 160899919X
- Resource ID: LLS:FRMNLYSSXG
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:04:42Z
Jacob Neusner (1932–2016) was a preeminent scholar of ancient Judaism and one of the most published authors ever, with more than 900 original volumes to his name. He was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Oxford, and Yale University. He was research professor of theology and senior fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. Neusner’s work has been highly influential, if sometimes controversial. He pioneered applying “form criticism” to Rabbinic texts, and aimed at a humanistic and academic reading of ancient Jewish literature.
Neusner’s works include the Jacob Neusner Jewish Studies Bundle (99 vols.).