Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), Jewish-American scholar
Jacob Neusner (b.1932) is a Jewish-American scholar, at Bard College (Annandale-on-Huston, NY), USA.
Biography
Jacob Neusner (1932- ). A.B. Harvard (1953); Master of Hebrew Letters, Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1960); Ph.D. Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary (1961); Graduate studies, Oxford University, Hebrew University. Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism, Bard College (1994- ). Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. Previously taught at Columbia, Brown, and South Florida. A prolific author, respected scholar and professor, and ordained rabbi, Neusner has written or edited hundreds of books on Judaism. Editor of the Encyclopedia of Judaism (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of The Review of Rabbinic Judaism; Editor-in-Chief of The Brill Reference Library of Judaism. Editor of Studies in Judaism (University Press of America).
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 (1971 Neusner), book
- From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism (1973 Neusner), book
- The Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism (1973 Neusner), book
- Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity (1984 Neusner), book
- From Testament to Torah: An Introduction to Judaism in Its Formative Age (Englewood Cliffs 1988)
- Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (1988 Goodenough/Neusner), book (abridged ed.)
- From Scripture to 70: The Pre-Rabbinic Beginnings of the Halakhah (Atlanta 1999)
- The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism (London 2000)
Edited volumes
- Judaisms and their Messiahs (1987 Neusner), edited volume
- History of the Jews in the First Century of the Common Era (1990 Neusner), edited volume
- Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (1996 Neusner/Green), edited volume
- In Quest of the Historical Pharisees (2007 Neusner/Chilton), edited volume