The Treasury of Judaism: The calendar

The Treasury of Judaism: The calendar
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Studies in Judaism
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era.

The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays

The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays
Author: Malka Drucker
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Fasts and feasts
ISBN: 9780316193436

Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.

The Treasury of Judaism: The life cycle

The Treasury of Judaism: The life cycle
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780761840480

This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavli or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure. Book jacket.

The Treasury of Judaism: The life cycle

The Treasury of Judaism: The life cycle
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Studies in Judaism
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavli or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure. Book jacket.

A Treasury of Jewish Quotations

A Treasury of Jewish Quotations
Author: Joseph L. Baron
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461627354

The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes. Here is a rich treasury compiled from over 2,500 years of Jewish writings–from the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Zohar, and the Bible, through excerpts from Rashi, Maimonides, the Baal Shem Tov, as well as Spinoza, Disraeli, Herzl, Freud, Einstein, and many others. For more than forty years Dr. Joseph L. Baron, the eminent Jewish scholar, gathered material for this work, mining all the great treasuries of classic Jewish literature. The result is this magnificent volume, a classic in its own time. Classified according to subject, the quotations are indexed by topic and author. Full source references are given as well as bibliographic data.

The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters

The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0761849793

The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems emerge from time to time as the work proceeds. In the recent past, Neusner has continued to explore special problems of the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon. At the same time, Neusner notes, others join in the discussion that have produced important and ambitious analyses of the thesis and its implications. Here, Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the hypothesis and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Green for the Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition, as Green places the documentary hypothesis into the context of Neusner's entire oeuvre. Neuser then reproduces what he regards as the single most successful venture of the documentary hypothesis, contrasting between the Mishnah's and the Talmuds' programs for the social order of Israel, the doctrines of economics, politics, and philosophy set forth in those documents, respectively. Then come the two foci of discourse: Halakhah or normative law and Aggadah or normative theology. Professors Bernard Jackson of the University of Manchester, England and Mayer Gruber of Ben Gurion University of the Negev treat the Halakhic program that Neusner has devised, and Kevin Edgecomb of the University of California, Berkeley, has produced a remarkable summary of the theological system Neusner discerns in the Aggadic documents. Neusner concludes with a review of a book by a critic of the documentary hypothesis.

The Tzedakah Treasury

The Tzedakah Treasury
Author: Avrohom Chaim Feuer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Dedication to Tzedakah has always been one of the basic traits of the Jewish people, and in this stellar book, Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer discusses all facets of it in his inimitably heartwarming and engaging manner. A favorite o

The Transformation of Judaism

The Transformation of Judaism
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2011
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0761854398

Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion. The book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990.

How the Halakhah Unfolds

How the Halakhah Unfolds
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 076185066X

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines. 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.

Jewish Holidays All Year Round

Jewish Holidays All Year Round
Author: Ilene Cooper
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780810905504

Explains the origins and meaning of the major Jewish holidays, describes how they are observed, and suggests related crafts and recipes.