A History of the Jews in Babylonia I: The Parthian Period

by Jacob Neusner

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2008

Overview

Beginning with the reign of Mithridates I, Jacob Neusner portrays the struggles and successes of the Jewish people in Babylon. Detailing their social, economic, and educational life, he sets the growth and expansion of the Jewish people in the wider context of seismic cultural and political shifts in Babylonia and the surrounding empires.

Product Details

• Title: A History of the Jews in Babylonia I: The Parthian Period
• Author: Jacob Neusner
• Series: A History of the Jews in Babylonia
• Volume: I
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jews › Iraq--Babylonia--History; Judaism › History--Talmudic period, 10-425; Babylonia › Ethnic relations
• ISBNs: 9781606080740, 1606080741
• Resource ID: LLS:HSTJWSBBYLNPRT1
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:37:47Z

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.).