A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part Eight: Negaim: Literary and Historical Problems
Overview
Part eight completes Jacob Neusner’s discussion of the Mishnah-Tosefta Negaim and Sifra Negaim-Mesora. Here, Neusner examines how the Negaim relates to the overarching contexts of the Mishnah-Tosefta and the Sifra. He considers the forms and formulary patterns of the Negaim and how it became law.
- Title: A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part Eight: Negaim: Literary and Historical Problems
- Author: Jacob Neusner
- Series: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity
- Volume: 8
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Mishnah › Tohorot (Order)--Commentaries; Tosefta › Tohorot--Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781597529327, 159752932, 159752932X
- Resource ID: LLS:HSTMSHNCLWPPRT8
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:38:06Z
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.).