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

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 (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