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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154728703321

Autore

Lightstone Jack N

Titolo

Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism : a sociology of knowledge / / Jack N. Lightstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988

ISBN

9786613810519

9781282232778

1282232770

9780889207271

0889207275

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judasme ; ; 3

Disciplina

296.1/2067

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Judaism - History - To 70 A.D

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Transliterations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The ""Restoration"" Community and the ""Torah of Moses""; Chapter Three: Diaspora, Sources of the Sacred, and Torah as Holy Relic; Chapter Four: Earliest Rabbinic Circles, Mishnah, and Scripture as Closed System; Chapter Five: Talmudic Rabbinism, Midrash, and the Fragmentation of Scripture; Notes; Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations; General Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman Disapora down to the end of the fourth century of the Christian Era; (3) earliest rabbinic Judaism in the second century C.E> in the land of Israel; (4) Late Antique Talmudic Rabbinism, primarily inn Babylonia, down to the sixth century of the Christian Era. Lightstone



attempts not only to describe