Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960.
Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America.
Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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Table of Contents
Preface ix
Prologue 1
PART 1
The Second and Third-Century Compilations
The Tannaite Midrashim
1. Exodus and Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael 31
2. Leviticus and Sifra 56
3. Numbers and Sifré to Numbers 76
4. Deuteronomy and Sifré to Deuteronomy 107
PART II
The Fourth and Fifth-Century Compilations
The Earlier Rabbah Midrashim
5. Genesis and Genesis Rabbah 141
PART III
The Sixth and Seventh-Century Compilations
The Later Rabbah Midrashim
6. Ruth and Ruth Rabbah 173
7. Song of Songs and Song of Songs Rabbah 197
Bibliography of Midrash Studies by Jacob Neusner 221
Index 231