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.
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ISBN
9780761884644
Publisert
2025
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Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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