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Title: Making God's Word Work: A Guide to the Mishnah by Jacob Neusner ISBN: 0-8264-1557-1 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Summary: A systematically misleading book
Comment: In this popularization of his prodigious body of academic work, leading Jewish Studies figure Jacob Neusner presents his philosophy of the Mishnah. Unfortunately, what he presents is an unrealistic account of the Mishnah and its world-view. Neusner force-fits the Mishnah into his own tendentious views of Rabbinic Judaism as a harsh and callous system, bent on enforcing unrealistically perfectionistic halachic minutiae and on exacting strict justice on those who fail to meet this standard. Selective interpretation of the Mishnah, using quotes out of context, and ignoring essential commentary provided by the Gemara and other sources leads to Neusner's systematically misleading picture of not only the Mishnah but of Judaism itself.