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.