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Subject(s)

• Rabbinical literature—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Hayes, Christine [Browse]

Series

Classic essays in Jewish history

Summary note

"This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early Rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this publication. The studies are presented in three sections according to theme: (1) sources, methods and meaning; (2) tradition and self-invention; and (3) Rabbinic contexts. The first section contains essays that made a pioneering contribution to the identification of sources for the historical and cultural study of the rabbinic period, articulated methodologies for the study of rabbinic history and culture, or addressed historical topics that continue to engage scholars to the present day. The second section contains pioneering contributions to our understanding of the culture of the sages whose sources we deploy for the purposes of historical reconstruction, contributions which grappled with the riddle and rhythm of the rabbis' emergence to authority, or pierced the veil of their self-presentation. The essays in the third section made contributions of fundamental importance to our understanding of the broader cultural contexts of rabbinic sources, identified patterns of rabbinic participation in prevailing cultural systems, or sought to define with greater precision the social location of the rabbinic class within Jewish society of late antiquity. The volume is introduced by a new essay from the editor, summarising the field and contextualising the reprinted papers."--Provided by publisher.

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Contents

• Chapter Introduction
• part Part I. Rabbinic History
• Sources, Methods and Meaning
• chapter 1 Leopold Zunz, 2Etwas über die rabbinische Literatur3 in 1818 (republished in Gesammelte Schriften, 1875-76), pp. 1-31.
• chapter 2 Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), 2Hagadische Elemente bei den Kirchenvatern3 in Monatsschrift fur geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, Vol. 3, No. 8 (1854), pp. 311-19.
• chapter 3 Victor Aptowitzer, 2Observations on the Criminal Law of the Jews3 in Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 15 (1924), pp. 55-118
• chapter 4 Adolf Büchler, 2The Levitical Impurity of the Gentile in Palestine before the Year 703 in Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 17 (1926), pp. 1-81
• chapter 5 Gedalyahu Alon, 2Those appointed for Money3 in Zion 12 (1947) 101-35; translated and reprinted in Jews, Judaism and the Classical World by Israel Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977), pp. 374-435
• part Part II. Rabbinic Culture
• Tradition and Self-Invention
• chapter 6 Israel Levy, 2L'Origine Davidique de Hillel3 in REJ, Vol. 31 (1895), pp. 202-211.
• chapter 7 Wilhelm Bacher, 2Das altjüdische Schulwesen3 in Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur, Vol. 6 (1903), pp. 48-81.
• chapter 8 E.E. Urbach, 2The Derashah as the Basis for the Halakhah and the Problem of the Soferim3 in Tarbiz, Vol. 27 (1958), pp. 168-82 (Hebrew)
• chapter 9 David Zvi Hoffman, pp. 1-12 of 2Le-Heqer Midreshei ha-Tanna'im3 in Mesilot le-Torat ha-Tanna'im (Tel Aviv: M. Drisner, 1928). Translation by A.S. Rabinowitz of 2Zur Einleitung in die halachischen Midraschim,3 (Berlin, 1888).
• chapter 10 Solomon Zeitlin, 2The Pharisees: A Historical Study3 in The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Oct., 1961), pp. 97-129
• part Part III. Rabbinic Contexts
• chapter 11 Saul Lieberman, 2The Martyrs of Caesarea3 in Annuaire de L'Institut de Philologie et D'Histoire Orientales et Slaves, Vol. 7 (1944), pp. 395-446
• chapter 12 David Daube (1909-1999), 2Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation and Hellenistic Rhetoric3 in Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. 22 (1949), pp. 239-264
• chapter 13 Elias Bickerman, 2La chaîne de la tradition pharisienne3 in Revue biblique, Vol. 59, No. 14 (1952), pp. 44-54; later in English in Studies in Jewish and Christian History II (1980), pp. 256-269
• chapter 14 Morton Smith (1915-1991), 2Palestinian Judaism in the First Century3 in M. Davis (ed.), Israel, Its Role in Civilization (1956), pp. 67-81
• chapter 15 Erwin R. Goodenough (1893-1965), 2The Rabbis and Jewish Art in the Greco-Roman Period3 in Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. 32 (1961), pp. 269-279
• chapter 16 Morton Smith (1915-1991), 2Goodenough's Jewish Symbols in Retrospect3 in JBL, Vol. 86 (1967), pp. 53-68
• chapter 17 Henry Fischel, 2Story and History: Observations on Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Pharisaism3 in American Oriental Society, Middle West Branch, Semi-Centennial Volume (1969), pp. 59-88
• chapter 18 Alexander Kohut, 2Die talmudisch-midraschische Adamssage in ihrer Ruckbeziehung auf die persische Yima und Meshiasage3 in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlñdischen Gesellschaft (1871), pp. 59-94.

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ISBN

• 1-351-34862-0
• 1-315-12190-5
• 1-351-34863-9

OCLC

1007500918

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