Why This, Not That?: Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli

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Author: Jacob Neusner

ISBN-10: 0761825258

ISBN-13: 9780761825258

Category: Jewish Law

This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others? The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the Halakhah, or law, of that Judaism? Second, can we account for the topics that the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli would introduce into the system, beyond the repertoire at the foundations defined by the analytical-topical hermeneutics that...

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This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others? The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the Halakhah, or law, of that Judaism? Second, can we account for the topics that the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli would introduce into the system, beyond the repertoire at the foundations defined by the analytical-topical hermeneutics that defines the normative category-formations?

Preface1Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Tractates12Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Mishnah's Anomalous Composites613Beyond the Mishnah's Repertoire: Other Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Tosefta1134Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Yerushalmi1555Beyond the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's and the Yerushalmi's Repertoire: Unrealized Theories of Halakhic Category-Formation in the Bavli1716Why This, Not That?243