LEADER 04316nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910788308403321 005 20211008200223.0 010 $a0-8122-0746-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207460 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060323 035 $a(OCoLC)859161128 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748628 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11492516 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10952565 035 $a(PQKB)10628997 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19114 035 $a(DE-B1597)449634 035 $a(OCoLC)1024041920 035 $a(OCoLC)1029815488 035 $a(OCoLC)979577067 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207460 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442196 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748628 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442196 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060323 100 $a20120410d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe memory of the Temple and the making of the rabbis$b[electronic resource] /$fNaftali S. Cohn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aDivinations: rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51174-8 311 0 $a0-8122-4457-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNotes on Usage --$tIntroduction. The Narration of Temple Ritual as Rabbinic Memory in the Late Second or Early Third Century --$tChapter 1. Rabbis as Jurists of Judaean Ritual Law and Competing Claims for Authority --$tChapter 2. The Temple, the Great Court, and the Rabbinic Invention of the past --$tChapter 3. Narrative form and Rabbinic Authority --$tChapter 4. Constructing Sacred Space --$tChapter 5. The Mishnah in the Context of a Wider Judaean, Christian, and Roman Temple Discourse --$tConclusion: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis --$tAppendix A: The Mishnah's Temple Ritual Narratives and Court-Centered Ritual Narratives --$tAppendix B: Mishnaic Narratives in Which a Rabbi or Rabbis Issue an Opinion with Respect to a Case --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhen the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aRabbis$xOffice 606 $aJudaism$xHistory$yTalmudic period, 10-425 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aRabbis$xOffice. 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 676 $a296.4/91 700 $aCohn$b Naftali S$01475968 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788308403321 996 $aThe memory of the Temple and the making of the rabbis$93690369 997 $aUNINA