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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2013.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.