Concludes a series that Neusner characterizes not as an exhaustive history of Babylonian Jewry and Judaism, but an effort to promote the understanding of a few basic problems of Talmudic historiography and religion. He extends the account past the beginning of the sixth century, when most historians
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.
Analyzes the new mode of talking about God that took shape in synagogue art and rabbinic writing in the fifth and sixth centuries CE, and appealed not to propositional but to symbolic modes of discourse. Demonstrates how it combined and recombined various symbols to make normative theological statem
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.
Examines the evolution of the concept that Moses received two versions of the Torah at Sinai, one written and one oral, and that the oral version has been passed down, mouth-to-mouth, to the present day. Follows the chain of documents on the written side, looks at how the two Torah differ, and compares how the difference has been understood in vari
