Judaism

The Evidence of the Mishnah

By: Jacob Neusner

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Paperback | 26 September 2003

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Jacob Neusner has--in over sixty scholarly works, fourteen textbooks, and thirteen collections of essays--laid the foundation and completed the structure for a new understanding of the history of Judaism. The present volume is the capstone effort to date in this endeavor.

Neusner reconstructs and interprets the Mishnah's intellectual history, presenting a picture of the beginnings and first major expression of Judaism. What makes this account distinctively historical, writes Neusner in his Introduction, will be our sustained effort to relate the unfolding of the ideas of the Mishnah to the historical setting of the philosophers of the document, to compare context and concept, to ask about the interplay between idea and social, material reality.

Neusner succeeds in this specific task and in the greater task of providing a work with methodological significance for the entire field of the history of religions.

Industry Reviews

""The mishnaic system, once impenetrable to all those who did not know the system from within, is now accessible and intelligible to the serious student. Neusner's conclusion is both profound and logically drawn from the evidence. This is destined to be a classic of modern Jewish scholarship.""

'Choice'

""'Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah' demonstrates the worth of academic inquiry into the meaning of one multiform religion. . . . The results are of the highest value to the entire discipline of religious studies, both in themselves and because the approach is of the highest potential transferability within the discipline.""

William A. Clebsch, 'Religious Studies Review'

""This is a magisterial achievement, a work of immense learning, methodically self-conscious, and philosophically illuminating. It inaugurates with distinction a new series of studies in tthe history of Judaism.""

'The Key Reporter'

""[This] promises to be one of the most important and exciting books in the field of religious studies in decades. It is a classic, . . . a revolutionary work.""

Jonathan Smith, University of Chicago

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