Halakhic Hermeneutics

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Author: Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0761825282

ISBN-13: 9780761825289

Category: Jewish Law

This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis. To do so, Neusner asks whether a determinate theory of interpretation guides the sages in their exposition of the topics, the category-formations, of...

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This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis.

PrefaceIntroduction1Tractate Sukkah12Tractate Qiddushin253Tractate Abodah Zarah594Tractate Keritot1055Tractate Parah1356Tractate Miqvaot1837The Generic Hermeneutics of the Halakhah217