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Jacob Neusner (1932–2016)

Autor von The Mishnah: A New Translation

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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen

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Judaism: An Introduction (2002) 40 Exemplare
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Learn Talmud (1978) — Autor — 37 Exemplare
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The Emergence of Judaism (2000) 35 Exemplare
Judaism in Late Antiquity (1995) 31 Exemplare
A Short History of Judaism (1992) 28 Exemplare
The Talmud of Babylonia (1984) 26 Exemplare
The Blackwell Reader in Judaism (2001) 22 Exemplare
Israel in America (1985) 21 Exemplare
Foundations of Judaism (1989) 21 Exemplare
The Talmud: A Close Encounter (1991) 21 Exemplare
Altruism in World Religions (2005) 19 Exemplare
Meet Our Sages (1656) 16 Exemplare
Sifra (1985) 15 Exemplare
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Neusner on Judaism (2017) 2 Exemplare
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The Mishnah : A new translation — Übersetzer — 1 Exemplar
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Judaism: the way of Torah (1969) 1 Exemplar
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The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and His Mission (2001) — Herausgeber — 45 Exemplare
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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.… (mehr)
 
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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.… (mehr)
 
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