This invaluable reference defines concepts, religious practices, theological terms, persons, places, and essential vocabulary from the writings of Judaism, ranging from the time of the Pentateuch's final formation until the close of the Babylonian Talmud. Over 3,300 entries by seventy international scholars offer historical literary, religious, and archaeological background for understanding the canonical form of the Bible, the texts of the Second Temple period, and the classical writings of rabbinic Judaism. The scope of this volume includes, among other things, information on Philo and Josephus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mishnah, and the Talmud, as well as key figures in the history of both Judaism and early Christianity. The "Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period" offers a reliable guide to the wealth of material useful for reading the Holy Scriptures. It has few rivals when it comes to accuracy and readability, and will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying religion.

Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period

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NEUSNER, JACOB

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Macmillan Library Reference

This book invites the reader to try to get in the Talmud. Nowadays, people are scarcely able to try. They do not know how to begin or where--or why. Getting into the Talmud is no easy matter, even for those Jews who are ardent to recover for themselves what their ancestors once knew. This invitation is to join a community of learning men and women, for Talmudic learning is collective. You do not "read" the Talmud, you "learn" it, preferably with a haver, or a fellow student, and always with a rabbi. Here, Neusner shall be your rabbi.

Invitation to the Talmud;: A teaching book

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Harper&Row

A rabbi focuses upon laws dealing with ritual behavior at meals in the Mishnah, Tasefta, Babylonian Talmud, and Palestinian Talmud, and discusses the relevance of Talmudic modes of thought and analysis

Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book (English, Aramaic and Hebrew Edition)

Harpercollins

From Library Journal\nNormative Judaism accepts a dual divine revelation: the written Torah (the five books of Moses) and the oral law, both given by God to the lawgiver on Sinai. Neusner's excellent introduction explains how the oral law handed down from generation to generation was eventually put into writing and became the Mishnah, and how the Mishnah generated the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. Neusner adeptly elucidates two important points: that God speaks to humanity even today through a continuous interpretation of the oral law, and that Judaism differs from its daughter religions, Christianity and Islam, in its acceptance of the equal validity of the oral law. Highly recommended for nonspecialists. Robert A. Silver, Shaker Heights P.L . , Ohio 
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Oral Torah: The Sacred Books of Judaism: An Introduction

Discusses trends in rabbinical interpretation, explains how the Midrash works, and looks at examples from the Hebrew Scriptures

Invitation to Midrash: The Workings of Rabbinic Bible Interpretation : A Teaching Book

Harper-San Francisco

Author Jacob Neusner discusses the struggle of Judaism in America to reconcile modernity with tradition, myth with reality,and the work of ages of faith with the "demands of contemporaneity, secularity, unbelief and worldliness."

American Judaism: adventure in modernity

PRENTICE/HALL

From politics to piety;: The emergence of Pharisaic Judaism

From The Publisher:"Progress in the study of the growth of Pharisaic Judaism before 70 A.D. will depend upon the accumulation of detailed knowledge and a determined effort to cease theorizing about the age. We must honestly attempt to understand not only what was going on in the first century, but also-and most crucially-how and whether we know anything at all about what was going on. Here you are invited to share the painful task of assessing difficult sources and criticizing the nature of extant information about the Pharisees before 70 A.D.. At the outset, you learn more than you wanted to know about the Pharisees, but the real reward of your labor ought to be mature skepticism about the nature of historical knowledge." - from the Preface

From Testament to Torah: An Introduction to Judaism in Its Formative Age

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Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period

Invitation to the Talmud;: A teaching book

Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book (English, Aramaic and Hebrew Edition)

The Oral Torah: The Sacred Books of Judaism: An Introduction

Invitation to Midrash: The Workings of Rabbinic Bible Interpretation : A Teaching Book

Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book (English, Aramaic and Hebrew Edition)

American Judaism: adventure in modernity

From politics to piety;: The emergence of Pharisaic Judaism

From politics to piety;: The emergence of Pharisaic Judaism

From Testament to Torah: An Introduction to Judaism in Its Formative Age