Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Specializing in Jewish history and religion in the first six centuries C.E., he is a co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (second edition in 4 vols., Brill, 2005) and The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective (in 2 vols., Brill, 2002-2006). He is editor of the journal The Review of Rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, Annandale-Upon-Hudson, New York. A member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England, he is the internationally recognized author of hundreds of books on Judaism.

• INTRODUCTIONTHE FIRST CENTURIESTHE MEDIEVAL PERIODTHE MODERN PERIOD

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Specializing in Jewish history and religion in the first six centuries C.E., he is a co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (second edition in 4 vols., Brill, 2005) and The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective (in 2 vols., Brill, 2002-2006). He is editor of the journal The Review of Rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, Annandale-Upon-Hudson, New York. A member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England, he is the internationally recognized author of hundreds of books on Judaism.

• INTRODUCTIONTHE FIRST CENTURIESTHE MEDIEVAL PERIODTHE MODERN PERIOD

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Specializing in Jewish history and religion in the first six centuries C.E., he is a co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (second edition in 4 vols., Brill, 2005) and The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective (in 2 vols., Brill, 2002-2006). He is editor of the journal The Review of Rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, Annandale-Upon-Hudson, New York. A member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England, he is the internationally recognized author of hundreds of books on Judaism.

• INTRODUCTIONTHE FIRST CENTURIESTHE MEDIEVAL PERIODTHE MODERN PERIOD