Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), Jewish-American scholar

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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.

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