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{en} Jacob Neusner. Are There Really Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels?: A Refutation of Morton Smith. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1993. (Studies in the History of Judaism)

Abstract

Editions

Published in Philadelphia, PA: Society of Biblical Literature, 1951. Reprinted in Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1968.

Contents

1. Smith's Alleged Parallels: Much Ado about Not Much. I. Why Reread a Forty-Year-Old Dissertation. II. Know-Nothings, Fundamentalists, and Morton Smith. III. Time to Reexamine Smith's Altogether-Too-Secret "Secret Gospel"? IV. The Lesser Theses of Smith's Tannaitic Parallels. 1. Verbal Parallels. 2. Parallels of Idiom. 3. Parallels of Meaning. 4. Parallels of Literary Form. 5. Parallels in Types of Association. 6. Complete Parallels. 7. Parallels of Parallelism. 8. Parallels with a Fixed Difference. V. Much Ado about Not Much. VI. For This, a Ph. D.? -- 2. Parallels of Parallelism: Smith's Statement of His Thesis -- 3. The Character of the Tosefta -- 4. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [1]: The Tosefta as a Commentary to the Mishnah -- 5. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [2]: The Tosefta as a Complement to the Mishnah -- 6. The Facts of Mishnah-Tosefta Relationships [3]: The Tosefta as a Supplement to the Mishnah.; 7. Are There Really Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels? I. Did Morton Smith Understand the Relationship between the Mishnah and the Tosefta? II. Smith's Conceptual Bungling. III. The Relationship between the Tosefta and the Mishnah and the Synoptic Problem. IV. Do Any Documents in Rabbinic Literature Draw on the Equivalent of a Q? V. Do Any Documents in Rabbinic Literature Give Evidence of a Shared Protocol of Exegesis or Common Convention Governing the Selection and Arrangement of Data? VI. What, Today, Is to Be Learned from the Career of Morton Smith? -- Appendix One: Smith's Legacy of Conceptual Bungling: The Case of Lee I. Levine -- Appendix Two: Smith's Legacy of Selective Fundamentalism in the Writing of S.J.D. Cohen: Believing Whatever You Like.

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