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Scripture and the Generative Premises of the Halakhah, Vol. 3
Scripture and the Generative Premises of the Halakhah Vol 3 Author:Jacob Neusner This is a study of the relationship between two cognate religious documents of Judaism, the Pentateuch and the corpus of Halakhah set forth by the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Balvi. Both contain normative rules or Halakhah. In this study, by "Halakhah" I mean not random rulings on this or that, wherever they surface. Rather, I refer to the ent... more »ire corpus of law laid out by its native categories as defined by The Halakhah set forth in the permanence ("writing") in the primary legal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. At stake in this sustained study is the characterization of the Halakhic process and program in the interim between-in literary categories--the closure of the Pentateuch and the formulation of the native categories of the Halakhah that organize the Mishnah and the Tosefta and the writings that build upon the Mishnah and the Tosefta.« less