Editing Jacob Neusner (section)

==Early life and study==
Neusner was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], to [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jewish]] parents.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> He graduated from [[Hall High School (Connecticut)|William H. Hall High School]] in West Hartford.<ref name=":2" /> He then attended [[Harvard University]], where he met [[Harry Austryn Wolfson]] and first encountered Jewish religious texts. After graduating from Harvard in 1953, Neusner spent a year at the [[University of Oxford]].

Neusner then attended the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]], where he was ordained as a Conservative Jewish rabbi.<ref name=":2" /> After spending a year at [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], he returned to the Jewish Theological Seminary and studied the [[Talmud]] under [[Saul Lieberman]], who would later write a famous, and highly negative, critique of Neusner's translation of the [[Jerusalem Talmud]].<ref name="Lieberman's Review">Saul Lieberman, "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/602175 A Tragedy or a Comedy?]" ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', Vol.104(2) April/June 1984 p. 315-319</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> He graduated in 1960 with a master's degree.<ref name=":2" /> Later that year, he received a doctorate in religion from [[Columbia University]].