Handbook of Rabbinic Theology: Language, System, Structure


<p>From his extensive and intensive study of the rabbinic literature, Jacob Neusner shows how the rabbinic documents give expression to a very real, if implicit, theological system. While the rabbinic literature is often seen as a collection of miscellaneous responses to questions arising from study of the Hebrew Bible and its application to contemporary life, Neusner sees a system behind and embodied in the various writings. He discusses the ways in which the divine thought, and the human thinking that sought faithfully to interpret it, actually came to expression and treats what he calls the grammar of the divine self-expression in order to help us see the theological structure that it implies. Then he shows how this implicit system is expressed in the rules for the life of the people that God has chosen as his own. Citing passages from almost all of the mishnaic tractates, Neusner shows how they fit into and give expression to the system.</p> <p>This publication has also been published in paperback, please <b>click here</b> for details.</p>

Author(s): Jacob Neusner  

ISBN 10: 0391041789
ISBN 13: 9780391041783
Pages: 612
Format: Paperback
Publication: February 2003
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