Comparative Midrash

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He holds nine honorary degrees, fourteen academic medals and other awards, and has published more than a thousand books.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 The Exegetical Program of Sifré to NumbersPart 3 i. A Sample of Sifré to BamidbarPart 4 ii. The Exegetical Types: Criteria of DifferentationPart 5 iii. The Exegetical Types [1] utitlization of the formulation of Scripture to demonstrate the perfection of ScripturePart 6 iv. The Exegetical Types [2] generalizations to which verses of Scripture , randomly chosen for their usefulness in proving the proposition of general concern, are incidental and subordinatePart 7 v. The Exegetical Types [3] Exegetical Program II: The absence of an exegetical program and the provision of a generalizationPart 8 vi. Types of Exegesis of Sifré to NumbersPart 9 The Exegetical Program of Sifré Zutta to NumbersPart 10 i. The Exegetical Types of Sifré Zutta to Numbers [1] utitlization of the formulation of Scripture to demonstrate the perfection of ScripturePart 11 ii. The Exegetical Types of Sifré Zutta to Numbers [2] generalizations to which verses of Scripture , randomly chosen for their usefulness in proving the proposition of general concern, are incidental and subordinatePart 12 iii. The Exegetical Types of Sifré Zutta to Numbers [3] Exegetical Program II: The absence of an exegetical program and the provision of a generalizationPart 13 iv. The Exegetical Types of Sifré Zutta to Numbers [4] Exegetical Program: Citation and Gloss of a verse of Numbers, no interest in a large-scale generalizationPart 14 v. Types of Exegesis of Sifré Zutta to NumbersPart 15 vi. Comparing the two commentariesPart 16 Systematic Comparison: Huqqat in Sifré to Numbers and Sifré Zutta to Numbers