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Jacob Neusner
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “most influential academic scholar of judaism and the most prolific”. Today it says “american academic scholar of judaism”.
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Jacob Neusner (1932- ) is the most influential academic scholar of Judaism and the most prolific. He has written or edited over 924 books about the Torah , Tosefta , Talmud , Midrash and other Jewish writings. The number of books that he has published does not include many more books in series that he edits; nor translations of his books into foreign languages; nor second or subsequent editions of his books, even when in some cases he rewrote the first edition.1
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most influential academic scholar of judaism and the most prolific
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american academic scholar of judaism
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