Jacob Neusner has written like a 1000 books.
No, seriously. He is considered to be the most prolific writer in human history...he's getting close to four digits. Logos has some of his stuff already, but it would be nice to have a few Neusner collections in PrePub.
Some suggestions are:
- A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai (Zakkai is THE major figure is the transition from pre 70 to post 70 Judaism)
- Development of a Legend. Studies on the Traditions Concerning Yohanan ben Zakkai
- The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70
- The Tosefta. Translated from the Hebrew. Six Divisions
- Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity
- Judaism in the Matrix of Christianity
- Writing with Scripture: The Authority and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in the Torah of Formative Judaism
- Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament. What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know
- The Judaism the Rabbis Take for Granted
- The Theology of the Oral Torah. Revealing the Justice of God
- Handbook of Rabbinic Theology: Language, System, Structure
- The Perfect Torah
- How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism?
- Torah Revealed, Torah Fulfilled: Scriptural Laws in Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity
- Judaeo-Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah
- Children of the Flesh, Children of the Promise. An Argument with Paul about Judaism as an Ethnic Religion
- Comparing Spiritualities: Formative Christianity and Judaism on Finding Life and Meeting Death
- Editor: The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament
- Editor: The Brother of Jesus. James the Just and his Mission
- Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: Comparing Theologies
- Judaic Law from Jesus to the Mishnah. A Systematic Reply to Professor E. P. Sanders
- Are There Really Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels? A Refutation of Morton Smith
- Jewish Law from Moses to the Mishnah
- Judaism in the New Testament: Practice and Belief
- Formative Judaism: History, Hermeneutics, Law and Religion. Ten Recent Essays
- Edited: Religious Writings and Religious Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism (Atlanta, 1989: Scholars Press for Brown Studies in Religion). Volume I.Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism
- Edited: Religious Writings and Religious Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism (Atlanta, 1989: Scholars Press for Brown Studies in Religion). Volume II. Christianity
Last but probably not least...
- Editor: The Origins of Judaism. Religion, History, and Literature in Late Antiquity. With William Scott Green. New York, 1991: Garland Press. Twenty volumes of reprinted scholarly essays, with introductions.
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- i Normative Judaism
- ii Normative Judaism
- iii Normative Judaism
- iv The Pharisees and Other Sects
- v The Pharisees and Other Sects
- vi Judaism and Christianity in the First Century
- vii Judaism and Christianity in the First Century
- viii Controversies in the Study of Judaic Religion and Theology
- ix History of the Jews in the Second and First Centuries B.C.
- x History of the Jews in the Second and First Centuries B.C.
- xi History of the Jews in the First Century of the Common Era
- xii History of the Jews in the Second Century of the Common Era
- xiii History of the Jews in the Second through Seventh Centuries of the Common Era
- xiv History of the Jews in the Second through Seventh Centuries of the Common Era
- xv The Literature of Formative Judaism: The Mishnah and the Tosefta
- xvi The Literature of Formative Judaism: The Talmuds
- xvii The Literature of Formative Judaism: The Midrash-Compilations
- xviii The Literature of Formative Judaism: The Midrash-Compilations
- xix The Literature of Formative Judaism: The Targumim and Other Jewish Writings in Late Antiquity
- xx The Literature of Formative Judaism: Controversies on the Literature of Formative Judaism
FYI: Many of the Christianity related titles were written with Bruce Chilton. While E. P. Sanders is credited with simultaneously initiating the New Perspectives on Paul movement while rightly drawing attention to the massive misunderstanding and misinterpretation of 2nd Temple Judaism in Christian history, Neusner and Chilton do a double team on him by disputing Sanders' propensity to lump all Jewish practice into one homogeneous lump.
Since Neusner has written in bulk, he (and his publishers) should be willing to sell in bulk...with the corresponding "commodity" discount.
Unfortunately, some of these are published by Brill, who has a horrible history of charging absurdly over-priced amounts for their stuff. If they keep that up, I will simply buy some of his other stuff...it's not like there aren't hundreds of options.
Heads up for Logos...in this article, Neusner points out that he doesn't sell lots of copies of many of his books. Logos could change that quickly IF the publishers are willing to take the value route instead of the Rolls Royce route. Sell me 10-12 of his books for $100...I will buy plenty. Try to squeeze me for $30, $40, or $100 (Brill, you listening?) apiece, and you won't see a dime from me--I promise.
I implore Logos to not make these collections too large or release too many at one time (unless they can finagle the big discounts). One or two collection of 5-10 titles each per year is plenty. Remember, we want to buy other stuff, too.
Thanks.
