Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age by Neusner, Jacob

Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761856351)

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Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age by Neusner, Jacob

Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age

$54.99
Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age by Neusner, Jacob

Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order: Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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Free-standing ideas form systems when random facts coalescing in a set of abstract propositions can be shown logically to cohere. We know that that is so when ideas intersect and can be shown to accommodate new problems and generate answers to fresh questions. The system exhibits its cogency by fixing upon one thing and saying it in many ways. That emerges when the evidence of a particular conception of the social order turns out to concern itself with a generative question and to recapitulate an answer that is repeated many times over. In that way the writings that in theory form a system of the social order signal their logic by what they deem self-evident. The essays address writings of formative Judaism in the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud, the first six centuries of the Common Era, and formative Christianity in the first six centuries of the Common Era. They take up a common program of categories and consequent convictions: where Judaism and Christianity intersected. This seeks not just random points of agreement but fundamental structural congruence: the confluence of systems. That inquiry concerns shared organizing categories of religion and ethics of the two faiths. What concerns us is how Scriptures held in common produced a single construction of history and a common view of culture and society.

Author: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-10: 0761856358
ISBN-13: 9780761856351
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.33w x 1.11d
By Jacob Neusner
By Jacob Neusner
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Jacob Neusner is distinguished service professor of the history and theology of Judaism and senior fellow with the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He holds nine honorary degrees and fourteen academic medals, along with other awards. He has published more than a thousand books.

Bruce D. Chilton is the Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College, executive director of the Institute of Advanced Theology, and rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. His books include: Rabbi Jesus, Rabbi Paul, Mary Magdalene, Abraham's Curse, The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, The Way of Jesus, and The Targums (with Paul Flesher).

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Specializing in Jewish history and religion in the first six centuries C.E., his work includes The Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity: Pagan, Judaic, Christian (co-edited with Jacob Neusner).

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