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Judaism in Late Antiquity 5. the Judaism of Qumran: a Systemic Reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Volume Two: World View, Comparing Judaisms

Judaism in Late Antiquity 5. the Judaism of Qumran: a Systemic Reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls( )
Editor: Avery-Peck, Alan
Neusner, Jacob
Chilton, Bruce D.
Series title:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Ser.
ISBN:978-90-04-12003-7
Publication Date:Dec 2000
Publisher:BRILL
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $191.00
Book Description:

In this volume, the authors ask of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? Their analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls describes how diverse writings stand for a religious system possessed of integrity and wisdom.

Book Details
Pages:276
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Judaism / History
Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.045 x 9.165 Inches
Book Weight:1.426 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Jacob Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 28, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in 1960. He also received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida before joining the religion department at Bard College in 1994. He retired from there in 2014.

He was a religious historian and one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He published more than 900 books during his lifetime including A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai; The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism; Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah; Strangers at Home: The 'Holocaust,' Zionism, and American Judaism; Translating the Classics of Judaism: In Theory and in Practice; Why There Never Was a 'Talmud of Caesarea': Saul Lieberman's Mistakes; and Judaism: An Introduction. He wrote The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together with Andrew M. Greeley and A Rabbi Talks with Jesus with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He also edited and translated, with others, nearly the entirety of the Jewish rabbinical texts. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 84.

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