• Jacob Neusner (July 28, 1932 – October 8, 2016) was an American academic scholar of Judaism. He was named as one of the most published authors in history...
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    writings composed between 400 and 1200 CE. According to Gary Porton and Jacob Neusner, midrash has three technical meanings: Judaic biblical interpretation;...
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  • This is a list of books by Jacob Neusner. Articles, reviews, etc. are not included here. A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai. Leiden, 1962: E. J. Brill. Abraham...
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    Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary, edited by Jacob Neusner and translated by Jacob Neusner, Tzvee Zahavy, Alan Avery-Peck, B. Barry Levy, Martin...
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  • Study. Longmans, Green. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-04-02. Neusner, Jacob (12 May 2016). "Jacob Neusner, 'The Rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees before...
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    in Religion, Literature and Art by Jacob Neusner, p. 1 Wilhelm Bacher. "Talmud". Jewish Encyclopedia. Jacob Neusner 1984 Torah From our Sages Rossell Books...
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    Weinreb. Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 2012. Koren Talmud Bavli. ed. Jacob Neusner, Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck Judaism in Late Antiquity: Part Four: Death...
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  • of a social belief system, resulting in the exclusion of "others". Jacob Neusner suggests that "the logic of monotheism ... yields little basis for tolerating...
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  • Paul II—would continue during the tenure of the new pontiff. Rabbi Jacob Neusner has written a number of works exploring the relationship of Judaism...
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  • Antiquity: Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough, edited by Jacob Neusner, published by E.J. Brill in 1968 (reprinted by Wipf and Stock in 2004)...
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    ISBN 0-595-40488-X Jacob Neusner Making the Classics in Judaism (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), pp. 1–13 and 19–44 Jacob Neusner Judaism: The Evidence...
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    Sources, Zuesse, Evan M., In: The Encyclopaedia of Judaism, edited by Jacob Neusner, A. Avery-Peck, and W.S. Green, 2nd ed., ISBN 90-04-14787-X, Leiden:...
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  • suggested that it was essentially an invention of American politics, while Jacob Neusner, in Jews and Christians: The Myth of a Common Tradition, writes, "The...
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    Jerusalem Talmud: A Translation and Commentary. Edited by Jacob Neusner and translated by Jacob Neusner, Tzvee Zahavy, B. Barry Levy, and Edward Goldman. Peabody...
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  • a historical Jesus in the Talmud, to the views of Johann Maier and Jacob Neusner, who consider that there are little or no historical traces and texts...
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  • who say don't know'—was typical of the attitude of the leadership. Jacob Neusner, World Religions in America: An Introduction, Westminster John Knox...
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    are a nation and were so before there was a Jewish state of Israel Jacob Neusner (1991). An Introduction to Judaism: A Textbook and Reader. Westminster...
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  • and Life After Death in the Qumran Scrolls". In Alan J. Avery-Peck & Jacob Neusner (eds.) Judaism in Late Antiquity: Part Four: Death, Life-After-Death...
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    spiritual contexts in order to construct parallels. Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner has stated that some portrayals of Aphrahat as someone who cherry picked...
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    Oxford 1912), vol. 2, p. 336 See Mishnah, Sanhedrin 7:1, translated in Jacob Neusner, The Mishnah: A New Translation 591 (1988), supra note 8, at 595–596...
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  • of a social belief system, resulting in the exclusion of "others". Jacob Neusner suggests that "the logic of monotheism ... yields little basis for tolerating...
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    the Completion of the Mishnah, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Jacob Neusner, William S. Green, Ernst Frerichs, Judaisms and their Messiahs at the...
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  • matters of religious practice than the denomination as a whole. When Jacob Neusner applied to JTS during the Finkelstein era, in 1954, he like other applicants...
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    brother of Jesus: James the Just and his mission p17 Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner – 2001 "Given that James has been identified as the son of Alphaeus...
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    centuries CE) and medieval Kabbalistic writings (the Zohar). Jacob Neusner (2005). Neusner on Judaism: Literature, p. 74: "When Eleazar finished the Works...
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  • ben Hushiel was the leader of the Jewish revolt against Heraclius. Jacob Neusner guesses that Jews of the west supported Khosrow II against the Byzantines...
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    the discussion of "ten" in the Gen. genealogies in M. Abot section 5, Jacob Neusner, The Mishnah: A New Translation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press...
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    A.: Metaphysical Communities – Christian Science and Theosophy," in Jacob Neusner (ed.), World Religions in America, Westminster John Knox Press, 2009...
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    brother of Jesus: James the Just and his mission p17 Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner – 2001 "Given that James has been identified as the son of Alphaeus...
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    Movses Xorenacʻi's History of Armenia. Isd. ISBN 978-90-429-1662-3. Jacob Neusner (1997). A History of the Jews in Babylonia. Vol. 2. Brill Archive. p...
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