The Encyclopaedia of Judaism, Edition 1 (Vols. I-III)

Jacob Neusner, Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Alongside his many publications on Rabbinic Judaism, he is editor of Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Brill).
William Scott Green is Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, and Dean of the College at the University of Rochester. He is author or editor of several books on ancient Judaism and also has written broadly on religion and higher education. He served two terms as editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is editor of Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism.

Consulting Editors:
David Altshuler, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Judith Baskin State, University of New York
Herbert W. Basser, Queens Universty
Robert Berchman, Dowling College
Chaim Bermant, Z"L
Daniel Breslauer, University of Kansas
Allan Brockway, University of South Florida
Michael Broyde, Emory University
Robert Chazan, New York University
Bruce D. Chilton, Bard College
Philip Davies, University of Sheffield
Daniel J. Elazar, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Seymour Feldman, Rugers University
Simcha Fishbane, Touro College
Paul Flesher, University of Wyoming
Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College
Neil Gillman, Jewish Theological Seminary
Lisa Goldberg, Charles H. Revson Foundation
Lester Graabe, University of Hull
Mayer Grubre, Ben Gurion University
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun,
University of Strasbourg and Hochschule für Judische Studien, Heidelberg
Lawrence Hoffman, Hebrew Union College
Karl-Johan Illman, Abo Akademi
Dana Kaplan, University of Missouri--Kansas City
Stephen T. Katz, Boston University
Menahem Kellner, Haifa Univeristy
Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College
David Kraemer, Jewish Theological Seminary
Johann Maier, University of Cologne
Sara Mandell, University of South Florida
Vivian Mann, The Jewish Museum, New York
Nils Martola, Abo Akademi
Steve Mason, York University
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Hebrew University
Anne Merideth, University of Rochester
Stephen Miller, City University
Joshua Mishkin, University of Rochester
Allan Nadler, Drew University
Frank E. Peters, New York University
Gary G. Porton, University of Illinois
Emanuel Rackman, Bar Ilan University
Aviezer Ravitsky, Hebrew University
Fred Rosner, Queens Hospital Center
Mordechai Rotenberg, Hebrew University
Jeffrey K. Salkin, Community Synagogue, Port Washington
Norbert Samuelson, Temple University
Jacob Saub, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Dov Schwartz, Bar Ilan University
Robert Segal, University of Lancaster
Jed Silverstein, University of Rochester
Norman Solomkon, Oxford University
Stephen A. Stertz, New York
Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma
James F. Strange, University of South Florida
Ivan Strenski, University of California at Riverside
Anita Weiner, Haifa University
Eugene Weiner, Haifa University and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Moscow
Elliot R. Wolfso, New York University
Tzvee Zahavy, West Orange, New Jersey
Joel Zaiman, Chizuk Amuno, Baltimore
Evan M. Zuesse, University of South Florida

The Encyclopaedia of Judaism has been selected by the American Library Association as Outstanding Reference Source 2001.

This book has been selected as CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title for 2000.

'The publication of the Encyclopaedia of Judaism in the year of the Millennium is an event worthy of celebration. In three volumes scores of scholars have recorded all that happened to a millennial people, whose religious 'Civilization' influenced...the human race, Europe, Asia and the Americas, a measure far beyond what one might have expected from their small number in any given age.'
Emanuel Rackman, Rabbi, Bar-Ilan University
'These internationally renowned editors have been able to assemble many highly qualified scholars well known in their fields of research to guarantee the success of this extremely well planned Encyclopaedia.'
Günter Stemberger, Institut für Judaistik, Universität Wien
'It is actually more than an ordinary encyclopedia. It is a substantial reference book. I recommend the Encyclopaedia of Judaism to everyone who wants to get reliable information about major subjects in Judaism in a compact...usefully detailed, format.'
Ithamar Grünwald, Tel Aviv University
'It has been recently said that 'the Christian ignorance of Judaism is one of the great tragicomedies of history.'...The Encyclopaedia of Judaism will be a splendid resource to combat that epidemic of ignorance, not only for Christians and for neutral observers, but also, I suspect, for an American Judaism that is increasingly in need of finding ways, as the prophet Isaiah admonished, to 'look unto the rock when ye are hewn.'
Jaroslave Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University
'As an outsider, I find this encyclopedia comprehensive and stimulating. It is indeed learned, but not at all specialists, and in fact is designed to appeal to people of all ages, backgrounds, and religion. Where to my mind it outdoes similar encyclopedias of surveys is in its quiet insistence throughout that Judaism is al living religion, and not just a thing of the past that simply survives into the present.'
Leonard E. Boyla, O.P., Prefect, The Vatican Library, 1984-1997.
'These three volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary learning of Judaism as religion. The authors of the various entries have opinions of their own and they are not always identical with conventional views. This is, therefore, not a bland encyclopedia. It is provocative in the tradition of the great eighteenth century encyclopedia which wspoused the views of the Enlightenment and of the Britannica which accepted the result of modern science. An encyclopedia is most useful and important when is makes the reader think.'
Arthur Hertzberg, Senior Editor, Encyclopedia Judaica.
'The Encyclopedia of Judaism is an essential resource for those interested
in learning more about Jewish life. '
Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, President of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, 2001.