New Humanities and Academic Disciplines by Neusner, Jacob

New Humanities and Academic Disciplines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781592449538)

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New Humanities and Academic Disciplines by Neusner, Jacob

New Humanities and Academic Disciplines

$30.00
New Humanities and Academic Disciplines by Neusner, Jacob

New Humanities and Academic Disciplines

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new purposes (secular, not only religious) and in new ways. Out of these minute particulars, in our imagination we may reconstruct the whole of modern history -- the universe out of a grain of sand. Perhaps no group in the past two hundred years of revolutionary change has moved so far, so fast, and in so many directions as the Jews.... from the Introduction

Author: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-10: 1592449530
ISBN-13: 9781592449538
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2004
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.66w x 0.46d
By Jacob Neusner
By Jacob Neusner
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Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960.

Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, ' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America.

Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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