The Book of Jewish Wisdom: The Talmud of the Well-Considered Life
by Jacob Neusner
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Gathers selections from the Torah arranged by more than one hundred subjects, from arrogance and blessings to virtue and wealth.Tags
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NO OF PAGES: 324 SUB CAT I: Wisdom SUB CAT II: Talmud SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: With his son, Noam, prolific rabbi-scholar Jacob Neusner (Judaism's Theological Voice, LJ 4/1/95) has compiled and edited an anthology of maxims, apothegms, and sayings of Jewish wisdom extracted from the Talmud and Midrash. Wisdom is defined as the power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action. The Neusners treat subjects ranging from arrogance to charity, justice to love, discretion to forgiveness. Perhaps the most worthwhile part of the book is the introduction, wherein the editors describe the unique structure and character of the Talmud and Jewish wisdom. As far as the collection itself goes, it is redundant. Most of the material show more can be found in many other books describing the aggadah or nonlegalistic parts of the Talmud. As a result, this is recommended only for all-inclusive Judaica collections.NOTES: Purchased from Half-Price books. SUBTITLE: The Talmud of the Well-Considered Life show less
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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