The stabilization of rabbinic culture, 100 C.E.-350 C.E. : texts on education and their late antique context /

Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last century, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture is both an introduction to a close reading of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of the development of rabbinic thought on education in the first centuries of the Common Era. In Ro...

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Main Author: Hirshman, Marc G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last century, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture is both an introduction to a close reading of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of the development of rabbinic thought on education in the first centuries of the Common Era. In Roman Palestine and Sasanid Persia, a small group of approximately two thousand Jewish scholars and rabbis sustained a thriving national and educational culture. They procured loyalty to the national language and oversaw the retention of a national identity. This accomplishment was unique in the Roman.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and indexes.
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