Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Mishnah Chapter 3 The Tosefta Chapter 4 Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael Chapter 5 Sifra Chapter 6 Sifré to Numbers Chapter 7 Sifré to Deuteronomy Chapter 8 Genesis Rabbah Chapter 9 Leviticus Rabbah Chapter 10 Esther Rabbah I Chapter 11 Ruth Rabbah Chapter 12 Pesiqta DeRab Kahana Chapter 13 The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan Chapter 14 The Talmud of the Land of Israel Chapter 15 The Talmud of Babylonia

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He holds nine honorary degrees and fourteen academic medals and other awards and has published numerous books.

Reviews

This set of anthologies sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. This is the story told in abundant sections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure.
*Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies, Spring issue, 2009*