Jerusalem and Athens: The Congruity of Talmudic and Classical Philosophy »

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

Neusner shows in this original study how philosophy, specifically, dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Talmud of Babylonia's Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical presentations, or tractates, of the Mishnah.