Jacob Neusner
Jacob Neusner is a prolific, as well as controversial, Jewish scholar and rabbi. He has written or edited over 400 books about the Torah, Tosefta, Talmud, Midrash and other Jewish writings.Books by Neusner
Neusner, Jacob. The Judaism behind the texts--the generative premises of rabbinic literature. II, Tosefta, Tractate Abot, and earlier midrash compilations: Sifra, Sifré to Numbers, and Sifré to Deuteronomy. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1994The Yerushalmi--the Talmud of the land of Israel : an introduction.
The Tosefta : an introduction. Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press, 1992
The Bavli that might have been : the Tosefta's theory of Mishnah commentary compared with the Bavli's. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1991
The Talmud : a close encounter Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1991
The canonical history of ideas : the place of the so-called Tannaite Midrashim, Mekhilta according to R. Ishmael, Sifra, Sifré to Numbers, and Sifré to Deuteronomy. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1989
Mekhilta according to Rabbi Ishmael : an introduction to Judaism's first scriptural encyclopaedia. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1988
Judaism, the Classical Statement: the evidence of the Bavli. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986
Invitation to the Talmud : a teaching book. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1984
How Adin Steinsaltz misrepresents the Talmud : four false propositions from his "Reference guide" Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1998
Critical studies of Neusner's work
"Mishna and Messiah 'In Context' " Craig A. Evans, Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) 112/2 1993 p.267-289"A Tragedy or a Comedy" Saul Lieberman,Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol.104(2) April/June 1984 p.315-319
"Jacob Neusner, the Mishnah and Ventriloquism" John C. Poirier, The Jewish Quarterly Review LXXXVII Nos.1-2 July-October 1996, p.61-78
"Jacob Neusner,Mishnah and Counter-Rabbinics" Shaye J. D. Cohen, Conservative Judaism Vol.37(1) Fall 1983 p.48-63 Hyam Maccoby
"Jacob Neusner's Mishnah" Midstream 30/5 (May 1984) p.24-32