New Humanities and Academic Disciplines: The Case of Jewish Studies
Overview
This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new purposes (secular, not only religious) and in new ways. Out of these minute particulars, in our imagination we may reconstruct the whole of modern history.
- Title: New Humanities and Academic Disciplines: The Case of Jewish Studies
- Author: Jacob Neusner
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Judaism › Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States; Jews › Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States
- ISBNs: 9781592449538, 1592449530, 9780299097509, 0299097501
- Resource ID: LLS:NWHMNTSCDSCPLNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:01:02Z
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.).