This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism. Jacob Neusner outlines and examines the four stages in whi

Describes how Halakah, or Jewish Law, enables the individual to achieve religious experience.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

The Halakhah embodies the complete Jewish Law, and contains commandments and guidelines for day-to-day living. The original commandments given by God to the Jew

Jacob Neusner has--in over sixty scholarly works, fourteen textbooks, and thirteen collections of essays--laid the foundation and completed the structure for a