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The reader's guide to the Talmud
BRILL 2001; US$ 177.00This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) seeks to answer basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing? more...
Rabbinic narrative
BRILL 2003; US$ 177.00This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic canon in the formative age. more...
Rabbinic narrative
BRILL 2003; US$ 158.00This detailed, systematic classification of rabbinic narrative opens a road towards the documentary analysis of rabbinic narrative and fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the rabbinic canon in the formative age. more...
The perfect Torah
BRILL 2003; US$ 141.00Jacob Neusner demonstrates in this analysis that the perfect Torah is the medium through which the one, unique God makes himself known. The Judaic statement of monotheism comes to expression in scripture as perfected by the Oral Torah in its native category-formations, Halakhah and Aggadah. more...
The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism
BRILL 2004; US$ 158.00Using Rabbinic Judaism as a case study, Neusner (religion and theology, Bard College) explains how Judaism and Christianity ordinarily read Scripture before the advent of historicism about two centuries ago that is, for most of their history. The difference between historical and what he calls paradigmatic thinking, he says, is how time is marked a more...
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 124.99This work addresses the the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. AD 370) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. AD 650). It analyzes selected divergences between parallel passages of the two Talmuds. more...
Kabbalah
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 9.99Showcases the relationship between Kabbalah and Christianity on the one hand and New Age religion on the other. This work provides historical background, ranging from the mystical groups that flourished in ancient Judaism in the East, to the use of kabbalistic ideas in the influential modern Jewish religious movement, Hasidism. more...
Reading the Zohar
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 134.99Comprising over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism up to the thirteenth century. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certain sections of the Zohar, and the ways in which the doctrines of kabbalah took shape around them. more...
Reimagining the Bible
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 49.99This work explores how each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. Arguing that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the biblical era to our own times, this serves as a guide to the history of that literature and its genres. more...
Holy Men and Hunger Artists
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 69.99The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism have been either overlooked or denied. Showing that rabbinic asceticism do exist, this book also notes that this asceticism dovetails with the rabbinic theology of sin and punishment, which encourages delaying gratification in this world in the hopes of a greater reward in the next. more...









