The Ecology of Religion: From Writing to Religion in the Study of Judaism

Jacob Neusner

Scholars Press, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 315 pages

While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization. An expert in Celtic studies, Markale regards myth as a branch of history, and explores mythological material to reveal the culture that gave rise to it. The alternative historical vision that emerges is both convincing and exciting.

- One of the most comprehensive treatments of Celtic civilization ever written.

- A cornerstone of Western civilization and the major source of its social, political, and literary values, Celtic civilization occupied the whole of Western Europe for more than a millennium.

- Unlike the Middle Eastern forerunners of the Greco-Roman world, Celtic civilization is still alive today.

Contents

• Part: 25
• The Documentary Method in the Systemic Study: 45
• Reading Norms Discerning System: 68

About the author

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ecology of Religion: From Writing to Religion in the Study of Judaism; Volume 16 of South Florida-Rochester-Saint Louis studies on religion and the social order
• Author: Jacob Neusner
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Scholars Press, 1997
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Oct 26, 2010
• ISBN: 0788500791, 9780788500794
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Jewish; Religion / Education; Religion / Judaism / General