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Neusner, Jacob

Judaism as Philosophy The Method and Message of the Mishnah - Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 1999 - 301p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. What it Means to Read a Tractate as Philosophy Mishnah tractate meilah: Only Law, or a Study of the Physics of Mixture ........11 Reading mishnah tractate Meilah as Philosophy ............36 2. Methodological Propositions A philosophy of Classification .......55 Main principles of Classification ........78 Main Principles of Classification .........102 Polythetic and Hierarchical Classification ...102 The Genus and the Species ..........122 Principles of Speciation ..140 Interstitiality and the Mixed Grid .......167 Mixture and Connection ......190 The Many and the One, The one and the Many ....212 3. The Mishnah in the Context of Greco-Roman Philosophy The philosophical Context 2. The Mishnah`s Message and the Neo-Platonic Doctine of the Unity of All Being ...........257 The Failure of Philosophy and the Beginning of Theology ..........270

ISBN: 0801861608 1790

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophy, Comparative
Mishnah- Philosophy
Judaism and Philosophy
Mishnah

Dewey Class. No.: B55.8 / N398