Is Scripture The Origin Of The Halakhah

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761831177

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Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah? by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The Halakhah constitutes a coherent construction comprised by category-formations defined by topics purposively amplified. These category-formations everywhere pursue a cogent analytical program, addressing diverse subjects, treated systematically, a single set of questions of definition and analysis. Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data. At issue is the origin of the comprehensive structure comprised by the Halakhic category-formations, by these topics and no others. Scripture forms the natural starting point for any inquiry into the origins of Judaism. So it is quite natural to treat Scripture as the base-line and the Halakhic category-formations as the variable when seeking the origin of the system. But what happens when, as in this project, we treat the system as the base-line and Scripture as the variable? Then we see that the Halakhic system viewed as a coherent statement does not originate in Scripture. Important parts of that statement do, important parts do not. But the system viewed whole does not.

Author : Aharon Shemesh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520945036

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Halakhah in the Making by Aharon Shemesh Pdf

Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-year gap in knowledge, allowing work to begin comparing specific laws of the Qumran sect with rabbinic laws. With the publication of scroll 4QMMT-a polemical letter by Dead Sea sectarians concerning points of Jewish law-an effective comparison was finally possible. This is the first book-length treatment of the material to appear since the publication of 4QMMT and the first attempt to apply its discoveries to the work of nineteenth-century scholars. It is also the first work on this important topic written in plain language and accessible to nonspecialists in the history of Jewish law.

Author : Phillip Sigal
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781589832824

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The Halakhah of Jesus of Nazareth According to the Gospel of Matthew by Phillip Sigal Pdf

Author : Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004162730

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Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament by Bernard S. Jackson Pdf

These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament -letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus' "trial(s)," evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567087344

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Jewish Law in Gentile Churches by Markus Bockmuehl Pdf

Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New Testament, but more broadly for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Author : Emanuel Rackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000042864060

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Modern Halakhah for Our Time by Emanuel Rackman Pdf

Of the few that have produced such legal codes, Judaism is perhaps the most law-oriented. But though much has been published on Judaism's legal aspects, little of it relates to the coordination of its legal and theological sides. It is therefore altogether appropriate that Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, one of the few who has, is a trained lawyer as well as a rabbi.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761831185

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The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itself as a triumph of imagination. It exhibits remarkable capacity to think in new and astonishing ways about familiar things. This study compares the Mishnah to four biblical codes and two codes found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The comparison provides perspective upon the uniqueness of the Mishnah in its Israelite context of Scripture and tradition. Linked to Scripture and in dialogue with Scripture, the Mishnah struck out in new paths altogether from those set forth by Scripture's codes and those that imitated them. The capacity to think in fresh ways about the Scripture's own imperatives and their implications attests to the validity of Rabbinic imagination that reaches concrete expression in the Mishnah, a triumph of reconstruction and creative recapitulation.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004116133

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The Halakhah by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The Halakhah embodies the complete Jewish Law, and contains commandments and guidelines for day-to-day living. The original commandments given by God to the Jewish people were enhanced by rabbis to offer a detailed framework to guide the lives of all Jews. In this complete, all-encompassing encyclopaedia of the Halakhah, the various laws are classified in such a way that a systematic and coherent structure is obtained. Each entry of the Halakhah is presented in a logical fashion. Where applicable, the original biblical wording is given, extended with literal abstracts from the Torah. Next, problems and questions that may arise from that law are stated and any additional information given. Finally, each entry gives comprehensive explanations and recommendations as to how these laws are to be observed in daily life where to be and where not to be, what to do and what not to do, what to say and what not to say. The Halakhah, or standard Jewish Law, combines the Mishnah (about 200 CE), the Tosefta (about 300 CE), and the two Talmuds (about 400, 600 CE for the Land of Israel and Babylon, respectively). Volumes I and II contain entries pertaining to the Jewish people in relationship to God. Volume III explains how the Jewish people can restore and maintain their society in accordance with the Torah as it is explained by the rabbis. In Volumes IV and V of this study, we take up the life of the Jewish household in their encounter with God. The Encyclopaedic account therefore moves from regulating relationships between Israel and God to establishing stable and equitable relationships among Israelites and finally to actually living the Halakhah.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773535206

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In the Aftermath of Catastrophe by Jacob Neusner Pdf

In this title Jacob Neusner continues his project of making clear the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of Judaism.

Author : Roger David Aus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761866138

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Essays in the Judaic Background of Mark 11:12–14, 20–21; 15:23; Luke 1:37; John 19:28–30; and Acts 11:28 by Roger David Aus Pdf

These five essays deal with the influence of Judaic haggadah or lore, especially in the form of “creative historiography” or “imaginative dramatization,” on four enigmatic passages in the Gospels, and one in Acts. They point to their deeper theological truths and negate the alternatives of true or false, historical or non-historical, usually applied to the narratives.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Studies in Judaism
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015080847901

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Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism by Jacob Neusner Pdf

This collection of ten essays and five book reviews draws on three years of work, from late 2005 through mid-2008. Included are Halakhic essays, essays on Classical Judaism, and two literary studies. Five book reviews conclude the collection, one of them a review essay, coveri...

Author : Luise Hirsch
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761859932

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From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall by Luise Hirsch Pdf

Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education. When this convention changed, it was largely thanks to Jewish women from Russia. Raised to be strong and independent, the daughters of Jewish businesswomen were able to utilize this cultural capital to fight their way into the universities of Switzerland and Germany. They became trailblazers, ensuring regular admission for women who followed their example. This book tells the story of Russian and German Jews who became the first female professionals in modern history. It describes their childhoods—whether in Berlin or in a Russian shtetl—their schooling, and their experiences at German universities. A final chapter traces their careers as the first female professionals and details how they were tragically destroyed by the Nazis.

Author : Pamela Barmash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199392674

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law by Pamela Barmash Pdf

Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with detailed studies of specific biblical passages. The comparison of biblical practice to ancient Near Eastern customs has received a new impetus with the concentration on texts from actual ancient legal transactions. The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law provides a state of the art analysis of the major questions, principles, and texts pertinent to biblical law. The thirty-three chapters, written by an international team of experts, deal with the concepts, significant texts, institutions, and procedures of biblical law; the intersection of law with religion, socio-economic circumstances, and politics; and the reinterpretation of biblical law in the emerging Jewish and Christian communities. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among scholars working in biblical law.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761849797

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The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters by Jacob Neusner Pdf

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.

Author : B. Barry Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780198032366

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Fixing God's Torah by B. Barry Levy Pdf

The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter. This is important not least because Jewish law requires that Torah scrolls read publicly in the synagogue be error-free. Jewish scribes, scholars, and legal authorities have sought to overcome or narrow these differences, but to this day have not completely succeeded in doing so. This book offers an in-depth study of how rabbinic leaders of the past two millennia have dealt with questions about the text's accuracy, presenting numerous authoritative rabbinic sources, many translated here for the first time.