The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism

Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, William Scott Green and Jacob Neusner

The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, the first and only year book to focus upon Rabbinic Judaism in particular, will publish principal articles, essays on method and criticism, systematic debates (Auseindersetzungen), occasional notes, long book reviews, reviews of issues of scholarly journals, assessments of textbooks and instructional materials, and other media of academic discourse, scholarly and educational alike.
The Annual fills the gap in the study of Judaism, the religion, which is left by the prevailing division of Rabbinic Judaism among the standard historical periods (ancient, medieval, modern) that in fact do not apply; and by the common treatment of the Judaism in bits and pieces (philosophy, mysticism, law homiletics, institutional history, for example). Scholarship presently obscures the fundamental unity and continuity of Rabbinic Judaism from beginning to the present.

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Author:

Lezlie C. Green

Editor:

Jacob Neusner

Alan Avery-Peck

Category:

Jewish Studies - General

BIC2:

Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, Judaism

Volume:

Series:

The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism

ISSN:

1388-0365

ISBN13:

9789004112179

Publication Year:

1998

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 182 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Table of contents

Ancient Judaism
The Religious Meaning of the Halakhah, Jacob Neusner, University of South Florida and Bard College
The Exodus in Jewish Faith: The Problem of God's Intervention in History, Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross
Water and Purity: A Microbiological Analysis of the Relevant Precepts of the Torah, Mishnah, and Talmud, Aloys Hüttermann, Forstbotanisches Institut der Universität Göttingen
Levirate Marriage and Halisah in the Mishnah, Dvora Weisberg, University of Pittsburg
Some Redactional Problems in Pesiqta Rabbati, Brigitte (Rivka) Kern-Ulmer, Harvard University
Eschatological Interpretation in Shirata, Martin Pickup, Florida College
Medieval Judaism
The Holy Place in Jewish Piety: Evidence of Two Twelfth-Century Jewish Itineraries, Yosef Levanon, Fayetteville, North Carolina
A Literary Examination of Maaseh Avraham Avinu Alav, Bernard H. Mehlman, Boston, Massachusetts
Sources of Maimonides' Concept of Idolatry as Mediation, Dov Schwarts and Eliezer Schlossberg, Bar Ilan University
Jewish Studies in the Jewish State Today
Judaic Studies at Crossroads: Cultural Substance or Academic Framework?, Ithamar Gruenwald, Tel Aviv University
Retrospectives
Why no History in Rabbinic Judaism? Yerushalmi's Zakhor Revisited, Jacob Neusner, University of South Florida and Bard College
Reviews
Aviva Cantor, Jewish Women/Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life, Bernhard H. Rosenberg, Edison, New Jersey
Dagmar Börner-Klein, Der Midrasch Sifre zu Numeri. Übersetzt und Erklärt, Jacob Neusner, University of South Florida and Bard College