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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461994403321

Autore

Heger Paul <1924->

Titolo

The pluralistic halakhah [[electronic resource] ] : legal innovations in the late second commonwealth and rabbinic periods / / by Paul Heger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

3-11-090121-8

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Studia Judaica ; ; Bd 22

Disciplina

296.1/8

Soggetti

Jewish law

Judaism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-398) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE TENSION BETWEEN TRADITION AN INTERPRETATION -- 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF RABBINIC DECISION-MAKING -- 3. IS THERE A SYSTEM IN RABBINIC DECISION-MAKING? -- 4. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HALAKHIC SYSTEM PRE -AND POST- DESTRUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: WHO WERE BEIT HILLEL AND BEIT SHAMMAI? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- CITATIONS INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines by a meticulous analysis of abundant rabbinic citations the pluralism of the Halakhah in the pre-70 period which stands in contrast to the fixed Halakhah of later periods. The Temple's destruction provoked, for political motives, the initiation of this significant shift, which protracted itself, in developmental stages, for a longer period. The transition from the Tannaitic to the Amoraic era was a consequential turning point on the extended path from flexibility to rigidity in Jewish law.