1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910135398503321

Autore

Parke Aubrey L.

Titolo

Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji / / Aubrey Parke ; edited by Matthew Spriggs and Deryck Scarr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2014

Canberra, ACT : , : ANU E Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-925021-84-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ( xxx, 308pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Terra Australis ; ; 41

Disciplina

996.11

Soggetti

Mythology, Fijian

Fiji History

Fiji Civilization

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Dr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar. The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975292503321

Autore

Berger Michael S.

Titolo

Rabbinic authority / / Michael S. Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-774063-4

1-280-47086-0

0-19-535271-8

0-585-33611-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

296.09015

296.1200922

Soggetti

Tannaim

Amoraim

Rabbis - Office

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Tradition (Judaism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Domains of Divine Revelation and Rabbinic Activity and Their Relationship; Part I: Institutional Authority of the Talmudic Sages; TWO: ""The Judge in Charge at the Time"": Rabbinic Authority as Divine Command; THREE: The Sages as the Sanhedrin; FOUR: Ordination: Standing in the Sandals of Moses; Part II: Personal Qualities of the Talmudic Sages; FIVE: The Rabbis as Experts; SIX: The Divinely Guided Sages; Part III: Rabbinic Authority as Authority Transformed; SEVEN: The Authority of Publicly Accepted Practice; EIGHT: The Authority of Texts; NINE: Rethinking Authority: Interpretive Communities and Forms of Life Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the nature of the extraordinary authority accorded in Judaism to the Sages of the first five centuries C.E. These teachers occupy an unrivalled position in traditional Judaism.