Contours of Coherence in Rabbinic Judaism (2 Vols)

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14231-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 97, 438 Seiten, Gewicht: 2048 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

This book shows that the disputes that characterize Rabbinic writings in the formative age underscore the coherence of Rabbinic Judaism. It is in three separate monographs. The first shows that disagreements concern secondary and tertiary issues. They therefore reinforce the primary norm by identifying as moot only trivial details. The second demonstrates, alternatively, that Halakhic disputes articulate unresolved conflict over generative principles. Sometimes, in the presentation of topics of the law, disputes not only indicate the range of consensus but bring to expression conflicting alternatives, theories that claim equal validity but contradict one another. Third, in some presentations of the law and in all presentations of theology where disputes occur, disputes simply gloss details in the application of accepted principles. They form a part of the exercise of legal or theological exegesis, filling in gaps with alternative facts.
All volumes of the print edition will become available in individual e-books: 9789004531567 (volume 1) - 9789004531574 (volume 2).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neusner, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard as well. He is also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University in England. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly, academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world.