The three questions of formative Judaism: history, literature and religion
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| adam_text | THREE QUESTIONS OF
FORMATIVE JUDAISM
History, Literature, and Religion
BY
JACOB NEUSNER
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, INC
BOSTON • LEIDEN
CONTENTS
PREFACE : xv
1 SETTLED ISSUES, NEGLECTED QUESTIONS IN THE STUDY OF
FORMATIVE JUDAISM 1
I Settled Issues: 1 From Judaism to Judaisms 2
II Settled Issues: 2 From History to Religion 8
III Neglected Questions: 1 Dating Documents 15
IV Neglected Questions: 2 Exegesis of the Talmud of
Babylonia (the Bavli) 17
2 THE QUESTION OF HISTORY 24
I Denning the Historical Question of Rabbinic
Judaism 24
II An Interior Perspective: 1 The Scriptural Roots of
Rabbinic Judaism 33
III An Interior Perspective: 2 The Documentary
History of Ideas 41
IV An Interior Perspective: 3 The Predocumentary
History of Systems of Ideas 45
V An Exterior Perspective: 1 The Relationship
between the Ideas That People Hold and the
Social World in Which They live 53
VI An Exterior Perspective: 2 The Extradocumentary
Context of Ideas—Pagan 59
VII An Exterior Perspective: 3 The Extradocumentary
Context of Ideas—Christian 73
VIII The Question of History: What Is Now at Stake? 90
3 THE QUESTION OF LITERATURE 94
I Defining the Literary Question of Rabbinic
Judaism 94
II The Documentary Starting Point: The Distinctive,
Indicative Traits of Documents 96
VU1 CONTENTS
III The Documentary Context: Autonomy,
Connection, Continuity 99
A Autonomy: Description of the Text on
Its Own 100
B Connection: Analysis of the Text in Context
through Comparison and Contrast with
Intersecting Affines 101
C Continuity: Interpretation of the Matrix That
Forms of the Canonical Texts a Coherent
Statement 101
D Imagining the Rabbinic Canon: Toward a
General Theory 101
IV The Question of Literature: A What Is at Stake in
Establishing the Documentary Context? Learning
How the Document Supplies Its Own Best
Commentary 105
A The Case of the Mishnah 106
B The Topical Construction of the Mishnah as a
Whole 107
C The Division of Topics into Their Logical,
Constituent Components 107
D The Division of Paragraphs into Sentences 107
E The Logic of Coherent Discourse: How Form
Analysis Points to die Construction of Syllogisms,
Yielding Cases Producing Rules 108
F How the Document Produces Its Own Best
Commentary 110
V Nondocumentary Writing: Compositions and
Composites of an Other-than-Documentary
Venue 111
A How to Identify Nondocumentary Writing: The
Starting Point 117
B Nondocumentary Writing: The Case of the
Bavli 119
C Freestanding Pericopes Framed without Any
Regard to Documentary Requirements 122
D The Hermeneutics of the Documentary
Hypothesis 123
CONTENTS IX
VI The Question of Literature: B What Is at Stake
in Identifying Other-than-Documentary Writing
and Its Traits? The Predocumentary History of
Rabbinic Judaism 126
VII The Question of Literature: C Other-than-
Documentary Writing: The Matter of Proportion
and Purpose 134
A Documentary, Nondocumentary, and
Extradocumentary Writing: The Case of
Genesis Rabbah 138
1 Documentary Writing in Genesis Rabbah 138
2 Nondocumentary Writing in Genesis Rabbah 138
3 Extradocumentary Writing in Genesis
Rabbah 139
4 The Documentary Complex 139
B Do Nondocumentary Compositions Matter?
1 The Negligible Proportion of Freestanding
Stories in Rabbinic Documents 139
C Do Nondocumentary Compositions Matter?
2 The Tangential Position, in Documentary
Context, That Is Assigned to die Freestanding
Composition 140
VIII The Question of Literature: What Is Now at
Stake? 141
A A Fresh, Form-Analytical Exegesis of die
Canonical Documents 141
B The Predocumentary History of die Ideas Set
Fordi in die Canonical Documents 143
C Validating die Documentary Reading of die
Canon against die Nihilistic Denial That We
Possess More dian Compilations of Diverse
Readings of This and That 144
D Where to Begin? 145
1 Denning Documents out of Diverse
Manuscript Testimonies 146
2 Contemporary Commentaries on Classic
Documents 146
3 The Predocumentary History of Ideas 146
X CONTENTS
4 Where There Are No Models, Go, Define a
Model—but Then Do die Work! 147
4 THE QUESTION OF RELIGION 148
I Denning die Question of Religion for Rabbinic
Judaism 148
A The Religious Study of Religion in die Case of
Rabbinic Judaism 151
B The Religious Study of Religion: The Analytical
Program 154
C The Historical Study of Religion and die
Religious Study of Religion: The Differences 156
II An Interior Perspective: 1 The Category
Formations of die System Viewed Whole—die
Halakhah 157
A Unrealized Theories of die Halakhic Category
Formation 159
1 The Mishnah s Anomalous Tractates 159
2 The Mishnah s Anomalous Composites 160
3 The Tosefta s Anomalous Composites 160
4 The Yerushalmi s Anomalous Composites 161
5 The Bavli s Anomalous Composites 161
B The Four Plausible Theories of Category
Formation and die One That Was Chosen 161
1 Odier Judaic Modes of Category Formation
besides die Rabbinic Halakhic 162
2 The Generative Logic of die Halakhic Mode
of Category Formation 164
3 The Self-Evidence of Analytical-Topical
Category Formations Yielded by Hierarchical
Classification: A Null Hypodiesis 165
C Testing die Null Hypodiesis: The Expansion of
die Halakhah—die Identification of New Topical
or Analytical Category Formations 169
1 The Mishnah s Anomalous Tractates 169
2 The Mishnah s Anomalous Composites 170
I New Topics 170
II New Propositions or Analytical
Principles 170
3 The Tosefta s Anomalous Composites 171
CONTENTS XI
I New Topics 171
II New Propositions or Analytical
Principles 172
4 The Yerushalmi s Anomalous Composites 172
I New Topics 172
II New Propositions or Analytical
Principles 173
5 The Bavli s Anomalous Composites 173
I New Topics 173
II New Propositions or Analytical
Principles 174
D The Rules of Choosing Topics 174
1 The Children of Noah: Explaining die
Categorical Anomaly 177
E Why This, Not That? The Premises and Goals
of die Halakhah in Its Category Formations 180
III An Interior Perspective: 2 The Halakhic and
Aggadic Category Formations in Comparison and
Contrast 183
A The Uses of the Aggadah by die Halakhah 186
B An Illustrative Case: Aggadah in die Halakhah
of Taanit, die Law of Fasting in Times of Crisis
and of die Village Cohort That Participates in
the Temple Cult 188
1 Aggadic Compositions in Mishnah-Tosefta
Taanit 188
2 Aggadic Compositions in Yerushalmi Taanit 195
3 Aggadic Compositions in Bavli Taanit 196
4 The Aggadic Role in die Halakhic Discourse
of Taanit 206
C Aggadic and Halakhic Incompatibility in
Category Formations 207
IV An Exterior Perspective: The Comparative Study of
Judaisms—die Category Formations of die Rabbinic
System in Comparison and Contrast to Those of
Odier Judaic Systems 209
A Denning Israel in Systemic Context 210
B Israel in Rabbinic Judaism: The Two Stages
in die Formation of die Judaism of die
Dual Torah 211
Xll CONTENTS
C Israel in die Mishnah and Companion
Documents 212
D Israel in die Second Phase in die Unfolding of
Rabbinic Judaism: The Yerushalmi and Its
Companions, die Rabbah-Midrash Compilations
and die Bavli 213
1 Rome as Brother 214
2 Israel as Family 215
E A Social Metaphor and a Field Theory of
Society: Israel and die Social
Contract—Comparing die Mishnah s and die
Yerushalmi s Israel 215
F Israel and die Social Rules of Judaisms 217
1 The First Law: The shape and meaning
imputed to die social component Israel will
conform to die larger interests of die system
and in detail express die system s main point
The case of Paul and Israel after die Spirit 218
2 The Second Law: What an Israel is depends
on who wants to know: Philosophers imagine
a philosophical Israel, and politicians conceive
a political Israel The cases of Philo and of
the library of Qumran 220
3 The Third Law: The systemic importance of
die category Israel depends on die generative
problematic—die urgent question—of die
system builders and not on dieir social
circumstance The place of Israel widiin die
self-evidendy true response offered by die
system will prove congruent to die logic of
die system—diat alone The cases of Paul,
Philo, die library of Qumran, and die
Rabbinic sages of die Mishnah, Talmuds,
and Midrash 223
4 The Hypodiesis: The system builders social
(including political) circumstance defines die
generative problematic diat imparts
self-evidence to die systemically definitive
logic, encompassing its social component
CONTENTS Xlll
The cases of Paul, die library of Qumran,
and die Rabbinic sages of die Mishnah,
Talmuds, and Midrash 226
G Reprise of die Matter of Self-Evidence 227
V The Question of Religion: What Is Now at Stake? 230
BIBLIOGRAPHY 233
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