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Jacob Neusner (1932–2016)

Autor de The Mishnah: A New Translation

617+ Obras 7,390 Miembros 36 Reseñas 4 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Jacob Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 28, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in mostrar más 1960. He also received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida before joining the religion department at Bard College in 1994. He retired from there in 2014. He was a religious historian and one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He published more than 900 books during his lifetime including A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai; The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism; Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah; Strangers at Home: The 'Holocaust,' Zionism, and American Judaism; Translating the Classics of Judaism: In Theory and in Practice; Why There Never Was a 'Talmud of Caesarea': Saul Lieberman's Mistakes; and Judaism: An Introduction. He wrote The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together with Andrew M. Greeley and A Rabbi Talks with Jesus with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He also edited and translated, with others, nearly the entirety of the Jewish rabbinical texts. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Jacob Neusner

A Rabbi Talks with Jesus (1993) 258 copias
A Midrash Reader (1990) 52 copias
Learn Mishnah (1809) 52 copias
Judaism: The Basics (2006) 51 copias
Death and Birth of Judaism (1987) 42 copias
Judaism: An Introduction (2002) 40 copias
Recovering Judaism (2000) 38 copias
Learn Talmud (1978) — Autor — 37 copias
The Emergence of Judaism (2000) 35 copias
Jewish-Christian Debates (1707) 35 copias
Judaism in Late Antiquity (1995) 31 copias
A Short History of Judaism (1992) 29 copias
The Talmud of Babylonia (1984) 26 copias
Foundations of Judaism (1989) 21 copias
Israel in America (1985) 20 copias
Altruism in World Religions (2005) 19 copias
Meet Our Sages (1656) 16 copias
Sifra (1985) 15 copias
The Parthian Period (1965) 14 copias
Sifre to Deuteronomy (1987) 10 copias
Aphrahat and Judaism (1971) 8 copias
Death and the afterlife (2000) 8 copias
The Mishnah before 70 (1987) 6 copias
Sifre to Numbers (1986) 6 copias
The Early Sasanian Period (1966) 5 copias
First steps in the Talmud (2010) 5 copias
Comparative Midrash (1986) 4 copias
How the halakhah unfolds (2006) 4 copias
Rabbi David (2012) 3 copias
Tractate Sotah (1984) 3 copias
Paradigms in Passage (1988) 3 copias
The Bavli and its Sources (1987) 3 copias
The Two Talmuds Compared (1996) 2 copias
Neusner on Judaism (2017) 2 copias
Sifre zutta to Numbers (2009) 2 copias
Study of Ancient Judaism (1982) 2 copias
Sifra in perspective (1988) 2 copias
Common Ground 1 copia
The Mishnah : A new translation — Traductor — 1 copia
The Talmud (1995) 1 copia
Field of Family Therapy (1970) 1 copia
Reading and Believing (1986) 1 copia

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Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (1989) — Editor — 66 copias
Memory and Manuscript (1961) — Prólogo — 55 copias
The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 2 of 2 (1656) — Contribuidor — 29 copias

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Placing himself within the context of the Gospel of Matthew, Rabbi Neusner imagines himself in a dialog with Jesus evaluating His teachings with that of the Torah of Moses. Rabbi Neusner explores the reasons Christians believe in Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven, while Jews continue to believe in the Torah of Moses and a kingdom of priests and a holy people on earth. He explains why he was not convinced that Jesus is the promised Messiah. Reading the book helped to deepen my Catholic Faith.… (más)
 
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DominicanScholar | otra reseña | Jul 9, 2022 |
 
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Murtra | Sep 10, 2021 |
Despite Rabbi Neusner's claim that Judaism is androgynous, based on what he says in his book he actually shows how male-oriented Judaism really is.
While the author distinguishes between the masculinity of the Bible and the femininity of the aggadah (the folkloric aspect), what Rabbi Neusner considers feminine is submissiveness. Yet this trait is stereotypically feminine as opposed to the stereotypically masculine traits of controller, ruler, and judge.
Androgynous Judaism is an interesting book to read; I just don't buy the author's premise.… (más)
 
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TI_GreenfieldMA | otra reseña | Jul 23, 2021 |

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Obras
617
También por
16
Miembros
7,390
Popularidad
#3,305
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
36
ISBNs
1,191
Idiomas
12
Favorito
4

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