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Why This, Not That?; Ways Not Take in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli
Why This Not That Ways Not Take in the Halakhic CategoryFormations of the MishnahToseftaYerushalmiBavli Author:Jacob Neusner 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-Tos... more »efta-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?« less