Milestone: Jacob Neusner (1932-2016)

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Soon after his death on October 8, 2016, at age 84, obituaries of Jacob Neusner appeared in the international press, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Tablet, Tikkun and the Times of Israel. These obituaries outline his life, highlighting the scholarly productivity that made him the most published author in any language (with more than a thousand books), his devotion to his accomplished wife, children and their families, and—of course—his profound impact on the study of Judaism. All of that is on the mark and yet does not address the substance of his contribution; still less does […]

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Endnotes

For discussion, see William Scott Green, “Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning,” in Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, William Scott Green and Gary G. Porton, eds., A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner, Brill Reference Library of Judaism 43 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 3–9; Aaron Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2016).

In the series Studies of Judaism in Late Antiquity III, IV (Leiden: Brill, 1973).

Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994), p. 163.

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).

(Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1999).