Jacob Neusner, ‘Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah’

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 23 April 1982. Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah. By Jacob Neusner. University of Chicago Press. £17.50. After compiling no fewer than 43 books (!) of detailed literary analysis of five orders of the Mishnah (the similar work on the sixth order was done by his pupils), Professor Neusner provides…