Making God's Word Work: A Guide to the Mishnah

by Jacob Neusner

Book Overview

"The Mishnah is the crown jewel of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age," so says the distinguished author of this book. Initiated in the aftermath of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and developed and amplified over the next five centuries, the Mishnah is the product of an age of calamity giving birth to a renewed search for recovery. As such, it speaks to every age, but to none more particularly and clearly than to our own which has witnessed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826415571
• ISBN13: 9780826415578
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"