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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Some Current Essays on the History, Literature, and Theology of Judaism
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Product Description: This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761852391 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 30, 2010, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009.

Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon: The Two Talmuds
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By Jacob Neusner
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9780761852117 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 16, 2010, cover price $44.99

Lost Documents of Rabbinic Judaism
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Product Description: Neusner assembles anomalous compositions that occur in the Mishnah, Tosefta, four Tannaite Midrashim, and Genesis Rabbah, and he further tests the uniformity of the forms that govern in a familiar chapter of the Bavli, showing that some documents do not conform to the indicative rules of rhetoric, topic, and logic...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761852414 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 2010, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Neusner assembles anomalous compositions that occur in the Mishnah, Tosefta, four Tannaite Midrashim, and Genesis Rabbah, and he further tests the uniformity of the forms that govern in a familiar chapter of the Bavli, showing that some documents do not conform to the indicative rules of rhetoric, topic, and logic.

How the Halakhah Unfolds: Volume 5 Hullin in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Bavli, Part Two Mishnah, Tosefta, and Bavli; Studies in Judaism
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Product Description: In this volume, the main points of the Halakhah of the topological expositions or tractates of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Bavli Hullin are set forth and the theological message of the tractate is laid out. The project yields a systematic account of the Halakhah in its documentary unfolding...read more
By Jacob Neusner and Tzvee Zahavy
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9780761850663 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 30, 2010, cover price $51.99 | About this edition: In this volume, the main points of the Halakhah of the topological expositions or tractates of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Bavli Hullin are set forth and the theological message of the tractate is laid out.

Introduction to World Religions: Communities and Cultures
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By Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9780687660001 | Abingdon Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $43.99

Death and the Afterlife
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Product Description: Why does one die? How should one die? What happens after death? How do resurrection and reincarnation fit within various religious traditions?These are the four fundamental questions posed in Death and the Afterlife. The answers, from acknowledged authorities, give insights into the beliefs and traditions of these faiths and will help readers understand the similarities and differences among them...read more
By Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9781608994144 | Wipf & Stock Pub, April 1, 2010, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Why does one die?
9780829813579 | Pilgrim Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Why does one die?

Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from the Jewish Encyclopaedia
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Product Description: Originally published at the turn of the twentieth century, The Jewish Encyclopaedia is a monumental twelve-volume resource on all aspects of Judaism. In the Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis, Jacob Neusner has selected every entry from The Jewish Encyclopaedia devoted to the rabbis of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud...read more
By Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9781565639324 | Hendrickson Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Jewish Encyclopaedia, the monumental ten-volume resource on all aspects of Judaism, was originally published at the turn of the twentieth century.

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9780801047312 | Baker Academic, April 1, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Originally published at the turn of the twentieth century, The Jewish Encyclopaedia is a monumental twelve-volume resource on all aspects of Judaism.

Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon: From the Mishnah to the Talmuds
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Product Description: This study of the inclusion of biographical narratives examines sage-stories, anecdotes about the life and deeds of Rabbinic sages, in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism during the formative age. These documents, from the first six centuries C...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761849513 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This study of the inclusion of biographical narratives examines sage-stories, anecdotes about the life and deeds of Rabbinic sages, in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism during the formative age.

The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters
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Product Description: Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Free for Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition, as Green places the documentary hypothesis into the context of Neusner's entire oeuvre...read more
By Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9780761849780, titled "The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters: Studies in Judaism" | Univ Pr of Amer, September 16, 2010, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon and its current recapitulations.

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Form-Historical Studies and the Documentary Hypothesis
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Product Description: The collection commences with historical theological essays: one on the apologetics of Judaism, the other on its soteriology. The second set of essays deals with the canon of Rabbinic Judaism. The final essay is an effort at constructive theology...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761848806 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: The collection commences with historical theological essays: one on the apologetics of Judaism, the other on its soteriology.

The Program of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan a
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Product Description: Of the score of documents in the Rabbinic canon that reached closure in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A (Abot de Rabbi Natan, henceforward: A.R.N.A.) proves the most difficult to classify in the canonical context...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761847977 | Univ Pr of Amer, October 30, 2009, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Of the score of documents in the Rabbinic canon that reached closure in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era, the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Text A (Abot de Rabbi Natan, henceforward: A.

Judaism and Christianity: New Directions for Dialogue and Understanding
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Product Description: This volume treats the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity from the first centuries and into modern times, paying particular attention to these faiths social, cultural, and theological interactions. The issues covered range from the formation of Jewish and Christian ideology in the context of Roman paganism to the ways in which Christian culture and theology of the medieval and modern periods form a backdrop to the creation of Jewish identity...read more
By Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9789004179387 | Reprint edition (Brill Academic Pub, April 30, 2010), cover price $154.00 | About this edition: This volume treats the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity from the first centuries and into modern times, paying particular attention to these faiths social, cultural, and theological interactions.

How the Halakhah Unfolds: Hagigah in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli
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Product Description: This book follows a single tractate through the principal documents of formative Judaism as Neusner has presented them. Neusner shows how his academic commentaries, outlines and comparisons and theological summaries yield a systematic account of the Halakhah in its documentary unfolding...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761847106 | 4th edition (Univ Pr of Amer, August 30, 2009), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This book follows a single tractate through the principal documents of formative Judaism as Neusner has presented them.

How the Bavli Is Constructed: Identifying the Forests Comprised by the Talmud's Trees/ The Cases Of Bavli Moed Qatan And Of Bavli Makkot
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761847083 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 30, 2009, cover price $49.99

In the Aftermath of Catastrophe: Founding Judaism 70 to 640
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Product Description: In this title Jacob Neusner continues his project of making clear the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of Judaism.
By Jacob Neusner
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9780773535206 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In this title Jacob Neusner continues his project of making clear the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of Judaism.

Comparative Midrash: Two Rabbinic Readings of the Book of Numbers : Exegesis
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Product Description: The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761845232 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 30, 2009, cover price $40.99 | About this edition: The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system.

Comparative Midrash: Sifre to Numbers and Sifre Zutta to Numbers
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Product Description: The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761845218 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 30, 2009, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system.

Golden Rule: The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions
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Product Description: The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world's religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers over the centuries. This new collection contains specially commissioned essays which take a fresh look at this guiding principle from a comparative perspective...read more
By Bruce Chilton (editor) and Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9781847062956 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 24, 2009, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.

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9781847062963, titled "The Golden Rule: The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 24, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.

Sifre Zutta to Numbers
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Product Description: Sifré Zutta to Numbers is the first translation into English of H.S. Horovitz's Siphre d'be Rab: Siphre ad Numeros adjecto Siphre zutta. It aims at contributing to the characterization of Sifré Zutta to Numbers, its recurrent formal traits, its paramount qualities of rhetorical and topical exposition, and its dominant logic of coherent discourse...read more
By Jacob Neusner (trans)
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9780761844037 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 30, 2008, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: Sifré Zutta to Numbers is the first translation into English of H.

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: More Questions and Answers
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Product Description: This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008. Included are Halakhic essays, essays on Classical Judaism, and two literary studies. Five book reviews conclude the collection, one of them a review essay, covering Edward Kaplan's two volumes on Abraham J...read more
By Jacob Neusner
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9780761844013 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 30, 2008, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008.

A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The Parthian Period
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By Jacob Neusner
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9781606080740 | Reprint edition (Wipf & Stock Pub, December 15, 2008), cover price $30.00

A History of the Jews in Babylonia: Later Sasanian Times
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By Jacob Neusner
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9781606080788 | Reprint edition (Wipf & Stock Pub, December 11, 2008), cover price $54.00

A History of the Jews in Babylonia: From Shapur I to Shapur II
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By Jacob Neusner
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9789004021440 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $180.00

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9781606080764, titled "The History of the Jews in Babylonia: From Shapur I to Shapur II" | Wipf & Stock Pub, December 11, 2008, cover price $46.00

Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity
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Product Description: These fresh essays, by the editors and by A.J. Avery-Peck, C. Dewald, S. Mason, M. Aviam, G.W.E. Nickelsburg, G.G Porton and L.H. Schiffman, ask: (1) why was the past studied in biblical antiquity, and (2) what sorts of information did the Scripture-producers in Judaism and Christianity require and use? Subjects include issues of history in: ancient Israel, ancient Greece, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocalyptic Literature, Josephus, Rabbinic Judaism, Archaeology, Jesus, Paul, James, Gamaliel...read more
By Bruce D. Chilton (editor), William Scott Green (editor) and Jacob Neusner (editor)
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9781905679003 | Deo Pub, November 30, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: These fresh essays, by the editors and by A.
9781905679010 | Deo Pub, June 30, 2007, cover price $39.95

A History of the Jews in Babylonia: The Age of Shapur II
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By Jacob Neusner
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9789004021464 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $186.00

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9781606080771 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 27, 2008, cover price $55.00

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