The Mishnah : social perspectives /

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Author / Creator:Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.
Description:xviii, 270 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 0169-9423 ; 46. Bd. = Handbook of Oriental Studies. The Near and Middle East
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 46. Bd.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3861636
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ISBN:9004114912 (cl. : alk. paper)
Notes:"... reprise of established research ..."--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Mishnah and Aristotle's Natural History. I. Aristotle's Natural History. II. The Mishnah's List-Making. III. The Mishnah's Principles of Classification. IV. Polythetic and Hierarchical Classification. V. The Genus and the Species. VI. Principles of Speciation. VII. The Many and the One, The One and the Many. VIII. The Mishnah and Hierarchical Classification. IX. Sifra's Critique of the Mishnah's Listenwissenschaft. X. The Failure of Philosophy and the Beginning of Theology
  • Ch. 2. The Mishnah and Aristotle's Economics. I. Economics. II. The Marketplace. III. Antique Economics. IV. Aristotle. V. Ancient Israel: The Heritage of Scripture. VI. The Mishnah's Market-Economics: The Household. VII. The Market. VIII. Wealth. IX. The Mishnah's Distributive Economics: Householder, Market, Wealth. X. Conclusion
  • Ch. 3. The Mishnah and Aristotle's Politics. I. Politics. II. Politics within the Judaic Myth. III. Why Aristotle in Particular? IV. Aristotle's Politics and the Politics of the Mishnah. V. The Mishnah's Politics of Hierarchization.