Download or read book Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series written by Jacob Neusner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011¬–2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and its theology. The reason for periodically collecting and publishing essays and reviews is to give them a second life, after they have served as lectures or as summaries of monographs or as free-standing articles or as expositions of Judaism in collections of comparative religions. This re-presentation serves a readership to whom the initial presentation in lectures or specialized journals or short-run monographs is inaccessible. Some of the essays furthermore provide a précis, for colleagues in kindred fields, of fully worked out monographs.