Halakhah in the Making : the Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis.
Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Taubman lectures in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-yea. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780520945036 0520945034 0520259106 9780520259102 1282360000 9781282360006 9786612360008 6612360003 |