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Why This, Not That?: Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli »

Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780761825258, ISBN-10: 0761825258
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jacob Neusner

Book Synopsis

This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others? The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the Halakhah, or law, of that Judaism? Second, can we account for the topics that the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli would introduce into the system, beyond the repertoire at the foundations defined by the analytical-topical hermeneutics that defines the normative category-formations?

	Preface
1	Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates	1
2	Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Composites	61
3	Beyond the Mishnah's Repertoire: Other Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Tosefta	113
4	Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Yerushalmi	155
5	Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's and the Yerushalmi's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Bavli	171
6	Why This, Not That?	243