Abstract

THE PRESENT WORK BY JACOB NEUSNER is part of a gigantic project of redescription of the history of Judaism in Late Antiquity. Since each volume of this project essentially recapitulates the claims of the whole with different emphases, any volume can serve as an introduction to the whole project, and a review of any part is, in effect, an evaluation of the whole. Neusner makes very dramatic and impressive claims for his research on the history of rabbinic thought. He believes that he has shown that

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