TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neusner, Jacob
AU  - Neusner,Jacob
TI  - Judaism as Philosophy:  The Method and Message of the Mishnah
SN  - 0801861608   
U1  - B55.8 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Philosophy, Comparative
KW  - Mishnah- Philosophy
KW  - Judaism and Philosophy
KW  - Mishnah
N1  - 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
ER  -