The Mishnah: Social Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11491-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

The Mishnah - the second-century law code that lays the foundation, after Scripture, of normative Judaism - encompasses all subjects that pertain to the life of the Jewish nation and as such provides a systematic basis for Israel's social order and world view. Any social program has its own politics, economics, and philosophy which together define a given social entity rather than any other. And any system defining the structure of a society strives to establish a set of harmonised and coherent fundamental principles, viewpoints and attitudes in treating the components of its theory of the community. It has been long shown that the Mishnah is such a well-composed theory of world-construction. It is demonstrated here how its specific message concerning the politics and economics that define the social order recapitulate those of Aristotle.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Neusner, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S NATURAL HISTORY
i. Aristotle's Natural History
ii. The Mishnah¹s List-Making
iii. The Mishnah¹s Principles of Classification
iv. Polythetic and Hierarchical Classification
v. The Genus and the Species
vi. Principles of Speciation
vii. The Many and the One, The One and the Many
viii. The Mishnah and Hierarchical Classification
ix. Sifra¹s Critique of the Mishnah¹s Listenwissenschaft
X. The Failure of Philosophy and the Beginning of Theology

2. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S ECONOMICS
i. Economics
ii. The Marketplace
iii. Antique Economics
iv. Aristotle
v. Ancient Israel: The Heritage of Scripture
vi. The Mishnah¹s Market-Economics: The Household
vii. The Market
viii. Wealth
ix. The Mishnah's Distributive Economics: Householder, Market, Wealth

3. THE MISHNAH AND ARISTOTLE¹S POLITICS
i. Politics
ii. Politics within the Judaic Myth
iii. Why Aristotle in Particular?
iv. Aristotle's Politics and the Politics of the Mishnah
v. The Mishnah's Politics of Hierarchization

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Neusner, Ph.D. (1960), Columbia University, is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College. In a remarkable career spanning more than 35 years, Professor Neusner has taught and conducted research at centers in North America, Asia and Europe including Dartmouth College, Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Cambridge University, the University of Göttingen and Uppsala University. Honored by awards from many of the world’s scholarly societies, his prodigious corpus of published work includes scores of seminal books and essays on Jewish life, law, ideas and tradition which have made him one of the most influential figures in his field in the modern period.