Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah

Jacob Neusner has—in over sixty scholarly works, fourteen textbooks, and thirteen collections of essays—laid the foundation and completed the structure for a new understanding of the history of Judaism. The present volume is the capstone effort to date in this endeavor.

Neusner reconstructs and interprets the Mishnah's intellectual history, presenting a picture of the beginnings and first major expression of Judaism. What makes this account distinctively historical, writes Neusner in hi…