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The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis /

Naftali S. Cohn provides an innovative understanding of the rabbinic authors of the Mishnah and their intense focus on the Temple. He contends that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis, arguing for their own importance within the complex social landscape of Jewish soci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cohn, Naftali S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Usage
  • Introduction. The Narration of Temple Ritual as Rabbinic Memory in the Late Second or Early Third Century
  • Chapter 1. Rabbis as Jurists of Judaean Ritual Law and Competing Claims for Authority
  • Chapter 2. The Temple, the Great Court, and the Rabbinic Invention of the past
  • Chapter 3. Narrative form and Rabbinic Authority
  • Chapter 4. Constructing Sacred Space
  • Chapter 5. The Mishnah in the Context of a Wider Judaean, Christian, and Roman Temple Discourse
  • Conclusion: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
  • Appendix A: The Mishnah's Temple Ritual Narratives and Court-Centered Ritual Narratives
  • Appendix B: Mishnaic Narratives in Which a Rabbi or Rabbis Issue an Opinion with Respect to a Case
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.