A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 43)

447 Pages·2014·2.623 MB·English

by  Alan J. Avery-Peck (editor), Bruce Chilton (editor), William Scott Green (editor), Gary G. Porton (editor)

A Legacy of Learning
The Brill Reference
Library of Judaism
Editors
Alan J. Avery-Peck (College of the Holy Cross)
William Scott Green (University of Miami)
Editorial Board
Herbert Basser (Queen’s University)
Bruce D. Chilton (Bard College)
José Faur (Netanya College)
Neil Gillman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Mayer I. Gruber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Ithamar Gruenweld (Tel Aviv University)
Arkady Kovelman (Moscow State University)
David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Baruch A. Levine (New York University)
Jacob Neusner (Bard College)
Maren Niehoff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Gary G. Porton (University of Illinois)
Aviezer Ravitzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dov Schwartz (Bar Ilan University)
Günter Stemberger (University of Vienna)
Michael E. Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elliot Wolfson (New York University)
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A Legacy of Learning
Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner
Edited by
Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, William Scott Green,
and Gary G. Porton
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover Ilustration: Suzanne Neusner, Garden Huppah (photo: Andy Wainwright).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, William
Scott Green, and Gary G. Porton.
  pages cm. — (The Brill reference library of Judaism ; 43)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-28427-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-28428-9 (e-book) 1. Rabbinical
literature—History and criticism. 2. Talmud—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3. Talmud—Evidences,
authority, etc. 4. Judaism—History—Talmudic period, 10-425. 5. Neusner, Jacob, 1932– 6. Festschriften. 
I. Neusner, Jacob, 1932– honouree. II. Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery), 1953– editor.
 BM496.6.L44 2014
 296.1’206—dc23
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Contents
Preface  ix
Contributors  xi
Introduction
Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning  3
William Scott Green, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton and
Gary G. Porton
Ancient and Rabbinic Judaism
The Amoraic Agenda in Bavli Rosh Hashanah: A Generational
Analysis  13
Alan J. Avery-Peck
Women and Gender in Jacob Neusner’s Writings  33
Judith R. Baskin
“It Is Time to Act for the Lord”: In Appreciation of Midrash Samuel  48
Craig A. Evans
Tent of Meeting as Bet Ulpana: Temple as Torah in the Targums of
Israel  64
Paul V.M. Flesher
Talmudic Stories about Angry and Annoyed Rabbis  82
Joel Gereboff
Judaism Evolving: An Experimental Preliminary Translation  110
William Scott Green
“The Weaver of Midrash in Performance”: Notes to an Oral-Performative
Translation of Sifre Devarim  142
Martin S. Jaffee
vi contents
The “Neusnerian Turn” in Method and the End of the Wissenschaft as We
Knew It  162
Peter J. Haas
Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Epigraphy: The Inscriptions from
Kuntillet ‘Ajrud  171
Baruch A. Levine
How the Rabbis Imagined Sarah: A Preliminary Study of the Feminine in
Genesis Rabbah  192
Gary G. Porton
Varieties of Religious Visualizations  210
Tzvee Zahavy
Judaism and Christianity
Vayavo Ya’acov Shalem  231
Herbert Basser
The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s
Achievement  242
Bruce Chilton
Embodied Judaism, Emplaced Judaism  265
David Kraemer
Jesus Talks Back  282
Amy-Jill Levine
Parting of the Ways that Never Parted: Judaism and Christianity in the
Work of Jacob Neusner  299
Elliot R. Wolfson
contents vii
American Judaism
The American Jewish Holocaust “Myth” and “Negative Judaism”: Jacob
Neusner’s Contribution to American Judaism  321
Shaul Magid
World Religions and Philosophy
Intentionality and Meaning  341
Robert M. Berchman
Another Prophetic Paradigm: Moses in Sufi Verse  360
Th. Emil Homerin
The Formative Period of Islam and the Documentary Approach:
A Prolegomenon  372
Aaron W. Hughes
The Academy
Transcendent Education: Immortality and the Liberal Arts  389
Roger Brooks
Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References  401
Index of Cited Authors 410
Index of Subjects 416