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A Rabbi Talks with Jesus by Jacob Neusner (Research Professor of Religion and Theology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA)
Category: Spirituality
Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. After hearing it, would you abandon your religious beliefs and ideology to follow him, or would you hold on to your own beliefs and walk away? In "A Rabbi Talks with Jesus", Jacob Neusner ...Show more
Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash by H. L. Strack; Gunter Stemberger; Markus Bockmuehl (Translator); Jacob Neusner (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Gunter Stemberger's revision of H. L. Strack's classic introduction to rabbinic literature, which appeared in its first English edition in 1991, was widely acclaimed. Gunter Stemberger and Markus Bockmuehl have now produced this updated edition, which is a significant revision (completed in 1996) of the ...Show more
The Mishnah - Introduction and Reader by Jacob Neusner
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A leading scholar of the formative age and writings of Judaism here formulates a theory of the Mishnah (one of the earliest dated sources of Judaism): what it is, how it should be read, and why it is of considerable interest in the study of religious conceptions of the social order. Each of the book's c ...Show more
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