The Jerusalem Talmud: A Translation and Commentary (28 vols.)

by Jacob Neusner

Publisher:

Hendrickson

, 2008

Overview

The Jerusalem Talmud, or Yerushalmi, is a commentary on the oral law (the Mishnah) of Israel that ties that oral law to the written law (the Torah, the Hebrew Scripture). Completed about 200 years prior to The Babylonian Talmud. Now all thirty-nine Yerushalmi tractates, as translated by Professor Neusner and Tzvee Zahavy, have been brought together in a single searchable resource. In addition to a preface and general introduction to the whole work, Professor Neusner has provided fresh and helpful introductions to each of the tractates. He has also provided within his translation the references to Bible verses alluded to in the Yerushalmi.

Contents

Top Highlights

“stun [the sacrificial animals before they are slaughtered” (source)

“‘May what I eat of your food be prohibited to me as is a sacrifice prohibited to me,’ all conveyed in the word ‘Qorban.’ Having said that, the person may not eat the food of the other.” (source)

“Passages in Hebrew are in Roman type; passages in Aramaic, in italics.” (source)

“Five things of the First Temple were lacking in the last Temple.” (source)

“‘Fire, ark, Urim and Thummim, anointing oil, and Holy Spirit.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: The Jerusalem Talmud: A Translation and Commentary (28 vols.)
• Editor: Jacob Neusner
• Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Volumes: 28
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Talmud Yerushalmi › English; Talmud Yerushalmi › Commentaries
• Publication Date: 2001
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Resource ID: LLS:JERUTALMUD

About Jacob Neusner

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.).