The transformation of Judaism – Jacob Neusner Gecertificeerd

The preeminent scholar of the history of Judaism explains here how Judaism changed from a philosophy to a religion between 200 and 400 C.E. He produces a work both revolutionary in its method and unprecedented in its results.
Comparing earlier and later sets of Judaic writings, Neusner sets forth how philosophy–abstract, elegant, orderly, and intellectual–turned into religion–tangible, down-to-earth, chaotic, and concrete. In the process, he offers an account of the birth of the Judaism that has become no…