Judaism in late antiquity. / 3, : Volume 1 : Where we stand : issues and debates in ancient Judaism. / / edited by Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 40. Bd.
• TeilnehmendeR: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-; Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Chilton, Bruce.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (191 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.; Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton.

This collection of systematic Auseinandersetzungen articulates difference and spells out what is at issue. Learning atrophies when political consensus substitutes for criticism, and when other than broadly-accepted viewpoints, approaches, and readings find a hearing only with difficulty, if at all....

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• WHO WERE THE PHARISEES? / Ellis Rivkin
• THE PHARISEES: A RESPONSE TO STEVE MASON / Lester L. Grabbe
• PHILO AND PHILOSOPHY / Robert M. Berchman
• UDAISM AND PARTICULARISM: A REPLY TO JAMES DUNN / William Scott Green
• DAVID WEISS HALIVNI'S SOURCES AND TRADITIONS REVISITED / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• THREE OF ADIN STEINSALTZ'S MISCONSTRUCTIONS OF THE TALMUD / Jacob Neusner
• GENERAL INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.