The Components of the Rabbinic Documents: Sifré to Numbers pt. 1-4
Author: Jacob Neusner
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
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Author: Jacob Neusner
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
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Publisher: University of South Florida
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systematic inquiry into the character of the Rabbinic literature and its formation based on a simple theory of formal, phenomenological classification of the writings into those that conform to the documentary program of the framers of the document, those that do not, and those that do not but appear in more than one document. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Gregg E. Gardner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0520386906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on writings of the earliest rabbis from the third century c.e., Gardner shows how the ancient rabbis saw the problem of poverty primarily as questions related to wealth—how it is gained and lost, how it distinguishes rich from poor, and how to convince people to part with their wealth. Contributing to our understanding of the history of religions, Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity demonstrates that a focus on wealth can provide us with a fuller understanding of charity in Jewish thought and the larger world from which Judaism and Christianity emerged.
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 2460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shmuel Safrai z”l
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 791
ISBN-13: 9004275126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages, First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned Compendia series. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a careful and succinct analysis of the content and character of various documents, their textual and literary forms, with particular attention to the ongoing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating groundbreaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. This volume will prove an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, the origins of Jewish tradition, and the Jewish background of Christianity. The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages – also called rabbinic literature – consists of the teachings of thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of this amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century C.E. and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This long-awaited companion volume to 'The Literature of the Sages, First Part' (1987) gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. 'The Literature of the Sages, Second Part' is an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, as well as for those interested in the origins of Jewish tradition and the Jewish background of Christianity.
Author: Moshe Lavee
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9004352058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, and shows how the Babylonian Talmud dramatically challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism. The history of conversion to Judaism has long fascinated Jews along a broad ideological continuum. This book demonstrates the rabbis in Babylonia further reworked former traditions about conversion in ever more stringent direction, shifting the focus of identity demarcation towards genealogy and bodily perspectives. By applying a reading-strategy that emphasizes late Babylonian literary developments, Lavee sheds critical light on a broader discourse regarding the nature and boundaries of Jewish identity.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University of South Florida
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.
Author: Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1532659016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 strategy, rabbinic writings in post-temple Judaism come to occupy an authoritarian place within a pluralistic tradition. Slowly, the rabbis occupy the seat of Moses, and Lightstone introduces readers to this process, to the most significant texts, to the rhetorical styles and appeals to authority, and even to how authority came to be authority. As a seasoned and honest scholar, Lightstone achieves his goal of introducing novice readers to the often obscure world of rabbinic literary conventions with astounding success. This book is an excellent contribution to the Westar Studies series focused on religious literacy.
Author: R R Bowker Publishing
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Published: 1999-03
Total Pages: 1312
ISBN-13: 9780835240871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew S. Goldstone
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9004376550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke Matthew Goldstone explores the ways in which religious leaders within early Jewish and Christian communities conceived of the obligation to rebuke their fellows based upon the biblical verse: “Rebuke your fellow but do not incur sin” (Leviticus 19:17). Analyzing texts from the Bible through the Talmud and late Midrashim as well as early Christian monastic writings, he exposes a shift from asking how to rebuke in the Second Temple and early Christian period, to whether one can rebuke in early rabbinic texts, to whether one should rebuke in later rabbinic and monastic sources. Mapping these observations onto shifting sociological concerns, this work offers a new perspective on the nature of interpersonal responsibility in antiquity.