A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part Fourteen: Miqvaot: Literary and Historical Problems
Overview
Jacob Neusner evaluates the literary and historical problems of the Miqvaot by examining how it relates to the Mishnah and Tosefta. He considers the forms and formulary patterns of the laws, then goes on to outline the Miqvaot in the rabbinic cities of Yahneh and Usha, covering such topics as the purification of water and restoring the suitability of unfit water.
- Title: A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part Fourteen: Miqvaot: Literary and Historical Problems
- Author: Jacob Neusner
- Series: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity
- Volume: 14
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Mishnah › Mikvaʼot--Commentaries; Tosefta › Mikvaʼot--Commentaries; Purity, Ritual › Judaism
- ISBNs: 9781597529389, 1597529389
- Resource ID: LLS:HSTMSHNCLWPRT14
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:38:13Z
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.).