Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash

by Jacob Neusner

Overview

This sourcebook collects and classifies how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. It is well known that verses of prophecy figure as proof-texts in Rabbinic exegesis of scriptural narratives, but to what end, and with what larger concept in mind? With extensive translation and documentation, author Jacob Neusner uses the case of Jeremiah in the Rabbinic canon of the formative age to examine the Rabbinic document's response to the prophetic ones in terms of how they select, explain, and utilize the language of Scripture. The book also explores how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages and documented in their canon from the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), through the Talmud of Babylonia, a.k.a. the Bavli (ca. 600 C. E.).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761834878
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/02/2006
Series:	Studies in Judaism
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.08(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is also a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, England. He has published numerous books with University Press of America on Jewish studies, in particular Rabbinic Judaism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Jeremiah in the Mishnah, Tractate Abot, and the Tosefta Chapter 3 Jeremiah in Sifra, the Two Sifrés, and Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael Chapter 4 Jeremiah in the Yerushalmi Chapter 5 Jeremiah in Genesis Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbi, and Pesiqta deRab Kahana Chapter 6 Jeremiah in Esther Rabbah I, Ruth Rabbah, Song of Songs Rabbah, and Abot de Rabbi Natan Chapter 7 Jeremiah in Lamentations Rabbah Chapter 8 Jeremiah in the Bavli Chapter 9 Index