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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 10.2 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 I summarize The Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism. Volume Eight. Why This, Not That? Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta- Yerushalmi-Bavli (Binghamton, 2000: Global Publications). THE HALAKHIC CATEGORY-FORMATIONS OF NORMATIVE JUDAISM: WHY THIS, NOT THAT IN THE MISHNAH-TOSEFTA-YERUSHALMI-BAVLI Jacob Neusner Bard College The Halakhah of Rabbinic Judaism as set forth in the Mishnah- Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli organizes its data into generative category- formations, most of them shaped around the twin-principles of [1] the analysis of [2] a particular topic, hence, analytical-topical category- formations. 1 Information on a given subject is shaped into the answer to one or more propositional or analytical questions of broad inter- est, generally transcending the subject-matter altogether. Then we should be able to account, within this theory, not only for the cat- egory-formations that govern, but also for the omission of those that can have served but play no role in Halakhic exposition of corpo- rate Israel’s culture and social order. The question, why this, not that? encompasses both the method of category-formation and the message conveyed therein through the repertoire of topics. At issue
Review of Rabbinic Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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