Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000) which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of that year, and was a finalist (one of three) for the National Jewish Book Award. Martin S. Jaffee is the author of Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE-400 CE (2001), Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Milennium, 2nd edition (2006), and several volumes of rabbinic translation and commentary. He is currently co-editor of the AJS Review. Klappentext An international team of scholars help the reader confront the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise Martin S. Jaffee; 2. The orality of Rabbinic writing Elizabeth Shanks Alexander; 3. Social and institutional settings of Rabbinic literature Jeffrey L. Rubenstein; 4. The political geography of Rabbinic texts Seth Schwartz; Part II: 5. Rabbinic Midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation Steven D. Fraade; 6. The Judaean legal tradition and the Halakhah of the Mishnah Shaye J. D. Cohen; 7. Roman law and Rabbinic legal composition Catherine Hezser; 8. Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages: accommodation and resistance in the shaping of Rabbinic legal tradition Yaakov Elman; 9. Jewish visionary tradition in Rabbinic literature Michael D. Swartz; 10. The almost invisible presence of the other: multi-lingual puns in Rabbinic literature Galit Hasan-Rokem; Park III: 11. The 'other' in Rabbinic literature Christine Hayes; 12. Regulating the human body: Rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert; 13. Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past Isaiah Gafni; 14. Rabbinic ethical formational and the formation of Rabbinic ethical compilations Jonathan Wyn Schofer; 15. Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia Daniel Boyarin....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charlotte E Fonrobert, Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Martin S. Jaffee
• Mitarbeit: Charlotte E. Fonrobert (Herausgeber), Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Herausgeber), Fonrobert Charlotte Elisheva (Herausgeber), Martin S. Jaffee (Herausgeber), Jaffee Martin S. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521605083
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60508-3
• Abmessung: 151 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Religi; Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge companion
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Schule und Lernen; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Religion: general, Judaism