Rabbinic Literature & the New Testament: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know (Biblia.com)

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Jacob Neusner begins with a study of the characteristics of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of why this literature cannot be easily used for the kind of history New Testament scholarship proposes to produce. He then critiques the writings of various New Testament scholars and highlights the differences between his own work and that of his critics.

Scholars of the New Testament, including not only professors in universities and seminaries, ministers in pulpits and priests in parishes, but also engaged lay people, generally realize that rabbinic literature, produced in the same centuries as the formative writings of Christianity, portrays the beginnings of the Judaism as we know it. They rightly take for granted that rabbinic literature illuminates the world in which earliest Christianity took shape, and, of course, since Jesus was born,

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