Judaism and Scripture: The Evidence of Leviticus Rabbah

Judaism and Scripture: The Evidence of Leviticus Rabbah

edited by Mordecai Margulies, 1909-1968 and Jacob Neusner, 1932-2016, in Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2003, originally published 1986), 665 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
This groundbreaking work continues Jacob Neusner's multi-volume examination of the main texts of Judaism in its formative years. The first two parts of the project--'Judaism: The Evidence of the Yerushalmi'--examined the Mishnah and the Talmud of the Land of Israel and placed them in the social, intellectual, and religious contexts of their time. In 'Judaism and Scripture' Neusner moves from the study of ancient Judaism in society at large to an analysis of Rabbinic Judaism in relation to Scripture itself. Neusner accomplishes this both through close analysis and through the first English translation of the critical text of the Leviticus Rabbah. Tracing the relationship between the actual Book of Leviticus and its rabbinic commentary, Neusner asks how the rabbis who stand behind the text make use of Leviticus and how, through their comments on it, they make intelligible and comprehensible statements of their own. In answering these two questions Neusner shows, through a prime example, exactly how Scripture enters Judaism and how rabbis of the formative age of Judaism chose and taught the lessons they deemed critical to the life of Israel, the Jewish people.
Field of Interest
Religion & Thought
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2003 by Wipf & Stock Publishers
Content Type
General reference book
Duration
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Format
Text
Original Publication Date
1986
Page Count
665
Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Wipf & Stock
Place Published / Released
Eugene, OR
Subject
Religion & Thought, Social Sciences, Central Myths, Belief Systems, الأساطيرالأساسية, Mythes centrale, Mythes fondateurs, Zentral Mythen, Gründungsmythen, מיתוסים מרכזיים, Mitos Centrais, Mitos Fundamentales, Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças, Jewish, Torah, Interpretation of, Spiritual Reading, Talmud, Jews
Series / Program
Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism
Keywords and Translated Subjects
الأساطيرالأساسية, Mythes centrale, Mythes fondateurs, Zentral Mythen, Gründungsmythen, מיתוסים מרכזיים, Mitos Centrais, Mitos Fundamentales, Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças

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