The Rabbis, the Law, and the Prophets

by Jacob Neusner

Overview

Here is an answer to the question, what do we learn about the Rabbinic system from its encounter with the Prophetic books? This book analyzes the way in which Rabbinic Judaism in its formative canon received and made its own an important segment of the Israelite Scripture, the Halakhic or legal heritage of Prophecy. The author characterizes the traits of Rabbinic Judaism that come to the surface in that Judaism's engagement with the Halakhic writings of ancient Israelite literary prophecy: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets. It proposses to discern the system and establish the coherence of the episodic Rabbinic exegesis of verses of Prophecy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761838975
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	10/22/2007
Series:	Studies in Judaism
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard as well. He also is a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Time Line
Chapter 3 The Rabbis and Prophecy
Chapter 4 Patterns of Prophecy
Chapter 5 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
Chapter 6 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Isaiah
Chapter 7 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Jeremiah
Chapter 8 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Ezekiel
Chapter 9 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Amos
Chapter 10 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Hosea
Chapter 11 The Rabbis and Prophetic Halakhah: Micah, Joel, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Jonah, Nahum, and Obadiah
Chapter 12 The Rabbis and the Prophetic Denunciation of Temple Sacrifice