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What Were the Early Rabbis?
Truth and Compassion
These essays represent a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion and, especially, Judaism.Setting aside common scholarly concerns with source criticism and history of …
What Were the Early Rabbis?
Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of "e;the gods"e; largely gave way …
The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical …
Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild
Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins? In order to shed light on the early …
Exploring Mishnah's World(s)
This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives …
In the Seat of Moses
In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabbinic Judaism in the late Roman period. Over time and through masterly rhetorical …
Society, the Sacred and Scripture in Ancient Judaism
This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem …
Exploring Mishnah's World(s)
This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives …
Commerce of the Sacred
Ritual and Ethnic Identity
In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They …