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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154760403321

Autore

Lightstone Jack N

Titolo

Mishnah and the social formation of the early Rabbinic Guild [[electronic resource] ] : a socio-rhetorical approach / / Jack N. Lightstone ; with an appendix by Vernon K. Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-92598-1

9786610925988

0-88920-729-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et la judaïsme ; ; 11

Disciplina

296.1/2306

Soggetti

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. [217]-229 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Focusing on the social meaning of mishnaic rhetoric -- 2. Mishnaic rhetoric -- 3. Tosefta's (dis)simulation of mishnah's rhetoric -- 4. Semahot's remaking of mishnah's rhetoric -- 5. Summary and conclusions: rhetoric and role-mishnah, material evidence and the emergence of the rabbinic guild in late-second-century Galilee -- Appendix: A comparison of Mishnah Gittin 1:1-2:2 and James 2:1-13 from the perspective of greco-roman rhetorical elaboration -- References and selected bibliography -- General index.

Sommario/riassunto

The author brings the theoretical and methodological insights of socio-rhetorical analysis to examine Mishnah, the first document authored by the early rabbinic movement and its principal object of study for several centuries.