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

• Autore: Lightstone Jack N
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 296.1/2306
• Soggetto topico: Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mishnah and the social formation of the early Rabbinic Guild
• ISBN: 1-280-92598-1; 9786610925988; 0-88920-729-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782630503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; ; 11.