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, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Brandeis University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida. A prolific author, respected scholar and professor, and ordained rabbi, Neusner has written or edited hundreds of books on Judaism and is widely celebrated as one of the most published authors in history. 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). Neusner is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He is the only scholar to have served on both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• A Life of Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai (1962 Neusner), book

• A History of the Jews in Babylonia: 1. The Parthian Period (1965 Neusner), book

• Development of a Legend: Studies on the Traditions Concerning Yohanan ben Zakkai (1970 Neusner), book

• 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
  • Le judaïsm à l'aube du christianisme (1986 Neusner), book (French ed.)
  • De joodse wieg van het christendom (1987 Neusner), book (Dutch ed.)
  • Jødedommen i den første kristne tid (1987 Neusner), book (Norwegian ed.)
  • Judentum in fruehchristlicher Zeit (1988 Neusner), book (German ed.)
  • Il giudaismo nei primi secoli del cristianesimo (1989 Neusner), book (Italian ed.)
  • Iesu jidai no Yudayakyo (1992 Neusner), book (Japanese ed.)

• From Testament to Torah: An Introduction to Judaism in Its Formative Age (1988 Neusner), book

• Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period (1988 Goodenough/Neusner), book (abridged ed.)

• History of the Jews in the first century of the Common Era (1990 Neusner), book

• From Scripture to 70: The Pre-Rabbinic Beginnings of the Halakhah (1998 Neusner), book
• The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism (2000 Neusner), book

Edited volumes

• Religions in Antiquity (1968 Neusner), edited volume

• 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

Fiction

• Children of the Flesh, Children of the Promise: A Rabbi Talks with Paul (1995 Neusner), novel

External links

• Wikipedia

Select Bibliography (articles)

• Neusner, Jacob / Alan Avery-Peck / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 995-996