Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), Jewish-American scholar
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Jacob Neusner is a Jewish-American scholar, at Bard College (Annandale-on-Huston, NY), USA.
Biography
Born in 1932. Professor at Bard College from 1994, after teaching in several American Universities (including Columbia, Brown, and South Florida).
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 (Leiden 1971)
- From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism (Englewood Cliffs 1973)
- Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity (1983 Neusner), book
- From Testament to Torah: An Introduction to Judaism in Its Formative Age (Englewood Cliffs 1988)
- 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]]
- (with William Scott Green). Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, 450 BCE to 600 CE (New York 1996)