| Description |
xxi, 412 pages : map ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to religion |
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Cambridge companions to religion.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-392) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise / Martin S. Jaffee -- Orality of rabbinic writing / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- Social and institutional settings of rabbinic literature / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- Political geography of rabbinic texts / Seth Schwartz -- Rabbinic midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation / Steven D. Fraade -- Judaean legal tradition and the halakhah of the Mishnah / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Roman law and rabbinic legal composition / Catherine Hezser -- Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages : accommodation and resistance in the shaping of rabbinic legal tradition / Yaakov Elman -- Jewish visionary tradition in rabbinic literature / Michael D. Swartz -- Almost invisible presence : multilingual puns in rabbinic literature / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- "Other" in rabbinic literature / Christine Hayes -- Regulating the human body : rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past / Isaiah Gafni -- Rabbinical ethical formation and the formation of rabbinic ethical compilations / Jonathan Wyn Schofer -- Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia / Daniel Boyarin. |
| Subject |
Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
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Jewish law -- History -- To 1500.
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| Added Author |
Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva.
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Jaffee, Martin S.
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| Added Title |
Companion to the Talmud and rabbinic literature |
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Talmud and rabbinic literature |
| ISBN |
0521843901 hardback |
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9780521843904 hardback |
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0521605083 paperback |
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9780521605083 paperback |
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