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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154331703321

Autore

Lapin Hayim

Titolo

Rabbis as Romans : the rabbinic movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

296.0933

Soggetti

Rabbis - Office - Talmudic period, 10-425 - Palestine

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Jews - History

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Judaism

Palestine History 70-638

Palestine Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage: the making of a Roman province -- Rabbis in Palestine: texts, origins, development -- The formation of a provincial religious movement -- Provincial arbitration: cases and rabbinic authority -- Romanization and its discontents: rabbis and provincial culture -- Epilogue: rabbis in Palestine, fifth to eighth century -- Appendix: rabbinic cases.

Sommario/riassunto

Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy.