Premium Three Questions of Formative Judaism: History, Literature, and Religion – Jacob Neusner

The academic study of Judaism requires a systematic inquiry into the history, literature, and religion–and eventually the theology–as revealed in the historical documents themselves. Under this premise, Three Questions of Formative Judaism encounters the canonical writings of Judaism in the context of their creation at a certain time and place. How something is said thus becomes as important as what is said. Bringing nearly fifty years of research to bear on these fundamental questions, Jacob Neusner chal…