The Talmud: A Close Encounter
Overview
Jacob Neusner offers guidance in approaching the Talmud, analyzing the ancient teachings, and interpreting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism. The result is a vivid introduction to one of the great documents of religion in society.
- Title: The Talmud: A Close Encounter
- 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: Talmud › Introductions; Judaism › Relations--Christianity; Christianity and other religions › Judaism
- ISBNs: 9781592447589, 1592447589, 9780742546707, 9780742546714, 9780800624989, 9781461645771, 0742546705, 0742546713, 080062498X, 1461645778, 080062498
- Resource ID: LLS:TALMUD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-15T15:51:09Z
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.).