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  • Judaism: The Basics

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series The Basics
    The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition.Key topics covered include:the TorahIsrael – the state and its peoplePassoverReform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionismthe impact of the ... Read more

    Was $42.99 CAD Now $37.09 CAD

  • The Literature of Formative Judaism

    The Midrash Compilations

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    First published in 1991. This is Volume XI, Part II of a set of twenty volumes of essays and articles on the religion, history and literature on the origins of Judaism. This text looks at to the canon, or holy literature, of Judaism. That literature covers what is called “the Oral Torah.” To understand the concept of the Oral Torah, we have to return to the generative myth of the Judaism that has ... Read more

    $350.41 CAD

  • The Transformation of Judaism

    From Philosophy to Religion

    by Rabbi Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series Studies in Judaism
    Jacob Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He characterizes the successive systems classifying the one as philosophical and the other as religious. He explains the categorical account of each and sets forth the outcome of a number of topical studies on the category-formations of ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Religious Foundations of Western Civilization

    Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    World ReligionsReligious Foundations of Western Civilization introduces students to the major Western world religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture.Contributors include: Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce D. Chilton, Th. Emil Homerin, Jon D. Levenson, William ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Neusner on Judaism

    Volume 1: History

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Jacob Neusner has published more than 1000 books and articles, scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is one of the most published humanities scholars in the world. Over a period of fifty years he has made significant, insightful and challenging contributions to the study of Rabbinic Judaism, particularly in the disciplines covered in the three volumes which make up Neusner on ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Israel and Zion in American Judaism

    The Zionist Fulfillment

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Religion in America
    First published in 1993, Israel and Zion in American Judaism: The Zionist Fulfillment is a collection of 24 essays exploring the concept of who or what is "Israel" following the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948 and the subsequent crisis of self-definition in American Jewry. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Theological and Philosophical Premises of Judaism

    by Jacob Neusner ...
    Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They were prisoners of secular time, subject to the movement and laws of history in its inexorable logic. ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Comparing Religions Through Law

    Judaism and Islam

    by Jacob Neusner, Tamara Sonn ...
    Comparing Religions Through Law offers a ground- breaking study which compares these two religions through shared dominant structures. In the case of Judaism and Islam the dominant structure is law.Comparing Religions Through Law presents an innovative and sometimes controversial study of the comparisons and contrasts between the two religions and offers an example of how comparative religious ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Midrash

    An Introduction

    by Rabbi Jacob Neusner ...
    The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible. In this masterful presentation, the reader is introduced to the classics of Jewish Bible interpretation, with special attention to the way in which the ribbis of Talmudic times read the Pentateuch, the Book of Ruth, and Song of Songs. The seven Midrash compilations are introduced with a lucid account of their ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Soundings in the Religion of Jesus

    Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

    Edited by Bruce Chilton, Anthony LeDonne, Jacob Neusner ...
    Series series Soundings
    Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out its weighty and often complex consequences for contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue. Soundings in the Religion of Jesus contextualizes Jesus and the writings about him that set the stage for Jewish-Christian relations for the next 2000 years. Of equal ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mishnah

    An Introduction

    by Rabbi Jacob Neusner ...
    In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks:How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written – a book without a preface? And how do you identify a book with neither a beginning nor end, lacking table of contents and title? The answer is you just begin and let the author of the book lead you by paying ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • The Talmud

    What It Is and What It Says

    by Rabbi Jacob Neusner ...
    Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations. A single book explains how this came about-the Talmud. By re-framing the Torah through sustained argument and analysis, the Talmud encourages the reader to actively apply reason and practice logic. ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD