The Memory Of The Temple And The Making Of The Rabbis
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The Memory Of The Temple And The Making Of The Rabbis
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Author : Naftali S. Cohn
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-01-09
The Memory Of The Temple And The Making Of The Rabbis written by Naftali S. Cohn and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-09 with Religion categories.
When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.
Fractured Tablets
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Author : Mira Balberg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023
Fractured Tablets written by Mira Balberg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Memory categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and to its commandments as governing every single aspect of a person's life. Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be very preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting of tasks, forgetting of facts, forgetting of texts, and--most broadly--forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg examines the ways in which the early rabbis approached and delineated the possibility of forgetfulness in practice and study and the solutions and responses they conjured for forgetfulness, along with the ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles as religious experts. In the process, Balberg shows that the rabbis' intense preoccupation with the prospect of forgetfulness was a meaningful ideological choice, with profound implications for our understanding of Judaism in late antiquity.
Rabbinic Judaism
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Author : David Kraemer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-07
Rabbinic Judaism written by David Kraemer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with Religion categories.
In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling on the Land, this situation was intolerable. So the rabbis, aspirants for leadership of the post-destruction Jewish community, appropriated inherited traditions and used them as building blocks for a new religious structure. Not unexpectedly, given the circumstances, this new rabbinic formation devoted considerable attention to matters of space and place. Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place offers the first comprehensive study of spatiality in Rabbinic Judaism of late antiquity, exploring how the rabbis reoriented the Jewish relationship with space and place following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Drawing upon the insights of theorists such as Tuan and LeFebvre, who define the crisis that "homelessness" represents and argue for the deep relationship of human societies to their places, the book examines the compositions of the rabbis and discovers both a surprisingly aggressive rabbinic spatial imagination as well as places, most notably the synagogue, where rabbinic attention to space and place is suppressed or absent. It concludes that these represent two different but simultaneous rabbinic strategies for re-placing God and Israel—strategies that at the same time allow God and Israel to find a place anywhere. This study offers new insight into the centrality of space and place to rabbinic religion after the destruction of the Temple, and as such would be a key resource to students and scholars interested in rabbinic and ancient Judaism, as well as providing a major new case study for anthropologists interested in the study of space.
What Is The Mishnah
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Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-07
What Is The Mishnah written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with Law categories.
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, genre, and purpose are obscure. What Is the Mishnah? collects papers by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel and gives a clear sense of the direction of Mishnah studies.
Ritual Dynamics In Jewish And Christian Contexts
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-08
Ritual Dynamics In Jewish And Christian Contexts written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with Religion categories.
In the past decades, the dynamics of rituals has been a productive topic of research. This volume investigates questions surrounding the ritual dynamics in (holy) Jewish and Christian texts, and cases where rituals of different religious communities interacted.
The Rabbinic Conversion Of Judaism
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Author : Moshe Lavee
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-11-20
The Rabbinic Conversion Of Judaism written by Moshe Lavee and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with Religion categories.
In The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, showing how the Babylonian Talmud challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism.
Contextualizing Jewish Temples
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Author : Tova Ganzel
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Contextualizing Jewish Temples written by Tova Ganzel and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with Religion categories.
Contextualizing Jewish Temples presents ten essays all written by specialists offering cross-disciplinary perspectives on the ancient Jewish temples and their contexts.
Animals And Animality In The Babylonian Talmud
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Author : Beth A. Berkowitz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Animals And Animality In The Babylonian Talmud written by Beth A. Berkowitz and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Religion categories.
This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.
The Origins Of Organized Charity In Rabbinic Judaism
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Author : Gregg Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-04
The Origins Of Organized Charity In Rabbinic Judaism written by Gregg Gardner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Charity is a central concept of Judaism and a hallmark of Jewish giving is to provide for the poor in collective and anonymous ways. This book examines the origins of these ideas in the foundational works of rabbinic Judaism, texts from the second to third centuries C.E.
Religious Competition In The Third Century Ce Jews Christians And The Greco Roman World
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Author : Jordan D. Rosenblum
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Religious Competition In The Third Century Ce Jews Christians And The Greco Roman World written by Jordan D. Rosenblum and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Religion categories.
The essays in this work examine issues related to authority, identity, or change in religious and philosophical traditions of the third century CE. This century is of particular interest because of the political and cultural developments and conflicts that occurred during this period, which in turn drastically changed the social and religious landscape of the Roman world. The specific focus of this volume edited by Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers is to explore these major creative movements and to examine their strategies for developing and designating orthodoxies and orthopraxies.Contributors were encouraged to analyze or construct the intersections between parallel religious and philosophical communities of the third century, including points of contact either between or among Jews, Christians, pagans, and philosophers. As a result, the discussions of the material contained within this volume are both comparative in nature and interdisciplinary in approach, engaging participants who work in the fields of Religious Studies, Philosophy, History and Archaeology. The overall goal was to explore dialogues between individuals or groups that illuminate the mutual competition and influence that was extant among them, and to put forth a general methodological framework for the study of these ancient dialogues. These religious and philosophical dialogues are not only of great interest and import in their own right, but they also can help us to understand how later cultural and religious developments unfolded.