The essays collected here form a contribution to a half-century of Jewish public life. From the 1950s to the present day, Jacob Neusner has served as one of the public intellectuals of the English-speaking community of Judaism. The essays, beginning a ha
The winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.
Concludes Neusner's translation of the whole of Tosefta. The fourth division is based on M. S. Zuckermandel's 1881 reproduction of the Vienna manuscript. A vine to the trellis of the Mishnah, he says, it explains, elaborates, augments, cites, glosses, and adds relevant cases and examples. The 1981 e
