Religious Studies And Rabbinics

Author : Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351973762
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Studies and Rabbinics written by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods. Religious Studies is committed to the study of religion writ large. It develops theories and methods intended to apply across religious traditions. Rabbinics, by contrast, is dedicated to a defined set of texts produced by the rabbinic movement of late antiquity. Religious Studies and Rabbinics represents the first sustained effort to create a conversation between these two academic fields. In one trajectory of argument, the book shows what is gained when each field sees how the other engages the same questions: When did the concept of "religion" arise? How should a scholar’s normative commitments interact with their scholarship? The book argues that if scholars from Religious Studies and Rabbinics do not realize they are addressing the same problems, they will not benefit from each other’s solutions. A second line of argument brings research methods, theoretical claims, and data associated with one field into contact with those of the other. When Religious Studies categories such as "ritual" or "the sacred" are applied to data from Rabbinics and, conversely, when text-reading strategies distinctive to Rabbinics are employed for texts from other traditions, both Religious Studies and Rabbinics enlarge their scope. The chapters range across such themes as ritual failure; rabbinic conceptions of scripture, ethics, food, time, and everyday life; problems of definition and normativity in the study of religion; J.Z. Smith’s writings; and the preaching of the African-American Christian evangelical social justice activist John Perkins. With chapters written by world-class theorists of Religious Studies and prominent text scholars of Rabbinics, the book provides a unique opportunity to expand the conceptual reach and scholarly audience of both Religious Studies and Jewish Studies.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496491
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbinic Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbinic Judaism, in its classical writings produced from the first through the seventh century of the Common Era, sets forth a theological system that is orderly and reliable. Responding to the generative dialectics of monotheism, Rabbinic Judaism systematically reveals the justice of the one and only God of all creation. Appealing to the truths of Scripture, the Rabbinic sages constructed a coherent theology, cogent structure, and logical system to reveal the justice of God. These writings identify what Judaism knows as the logos of God—the theology fully manifest in the Torah. This work make its contribution in seeing in the principal conceptions of Rabbinic Judaism a logos—a sustained, rigorous, coherent argument. A narrative story of the Rabbinic sages’ theological system sounds remarkably familiar—the age-old story of God’s justice (to which his mercy is integral), of humanity’s relationship with god as a possessor of the power of will, and of humanity's sin and God's response. This title is also available in paperback (ISBN 0 391 04179 7)

Author : Aaron W Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363086
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob Neusner on Religion written by Aaron W Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the first full critical assessment of his thought on the subject of religion. Aaron W. Hughes delineates the stages of Neusner’s career and provides an overview of Neusner’s personal biography and critical reception. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Neusner specifically, or in the history of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and philosophy of religion more broadly.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496483
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Rabbinic Theology written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his study of the rabbinic literature, Jacob Neusner shows how the rabbinic documents give expression to a theological system. Neusner discusses the how divine thought came to expression and he shows how the implicit theological system is expressed in the rules for the life of God’s chosen people. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : Solomon Schechter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology written by Solomon Schechter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book have grown out of a course of lectures delivered at various learned centre, and a series of essays published in the Jewis quarterly review. These essays began to appear in the year 1894.

Author : Jonathan Wyn Schofer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299204634
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Sage written by Jonathan Wyn Schofer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Schofer offers the first theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethics in several decades. Centering on one large and influential anthology, The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, Jonathan Schofer situates that text within a broader spectrum of rabbinic thought, while at the same time bringing rabbinic thought into dialogue with current scholarship on the self, ethics, theology, and the history of religions. Notable Selection, Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Association for Jewish Studies

Author : Meir Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415503604
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbinic Theology and Jewish Intellectual History written by Meir Seidler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the thought and legacy of Rabbi Loew (the Maharal), one of the most important Jewish thinkers. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book encompasses organized perspectives that range from East European cultural and intellectual history, to Medieval Jewish intellectual history and its legacies, to Rabbinic theology, to Italian Jewish history, to Early Modern Jewish intellectual history, to Maharal Studies, to Postmodernism and Judaism, to Jewish political theory, Comparative Religion, and Cinematic Studies.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592443419
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Judaism, for Example written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexei Sivertsev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407768
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism written by Alexei Sivertsev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests a new approach to the social history of Jewish religious movements in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. It argues that most of these movements and their traditions emerged within the context of complex interaction between traditional families and disciple circles.

Author : Solomon Schechter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666733466
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology written by Solomon Schechter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology by Solomon Schechter was originally published by The Macmillan Company in 1910. This edition is a scanned facsimile of the original edition. Currently there isn't a description available, but should one become this description will be updated.