McDowell, Gavin.
Diversity and Rabbinization : Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 CE. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (504 pages) - Semitic Languages and Cultures Series ; v.8 . - Semitic Languages and Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Synagogue -- Lee I. Levine - 1. Diversity in the Ancient Synagogue of Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Historical Implications -- Michael D. Swartz - 2. Society and the Self in Early Piyyut -- Jos�e Costa - 3. Some Remarks about Non-Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinization, and Synagogal Judaism -- PART 2. EVIDENCE FOR NON-RABBINIC JUDAISM: THE NEAR EAST -- Geoffrey Herman - 4. In Search of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia -- Robert Brody - 5. Varieties of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Geonic and Contemporaneous Sources -- Yoram Erder - 6. Karaites and Sadducees -- Christian Julien Robin - 7. The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Ḥimyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion -- Part 3. Evidence for Non-Rabbinic Judaism: Europe -- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman - 8. The Didascalus Annas: A Jewish Political and Intellectual Figure from the West -- Giancarlo Lacerenza - 9. Rabbis in Southern Italian Jewish Inscriptions from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages -- Michael Toch - 10. Jewish Demographics and Economics at the Onset of the European Middle Ages -- Part 4. Rabbinization -- Ron Naiweld - 11. The Rabbinization Tractates and the Propagation of Rabbinic Ideology in the Late Talmudic Period -- Daniel St�okl Ben Ezra - 12. Who is the Target of Toledot Yeshu? -- Gavin McDowell - 13. Rabbinization of Non-Rabbinic Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer -- G�unter Stemberger - 14. Seder Eliyahu Rabbah: Rabbinic Tradition for a Non-Rabbinic Society -- Ra'anan Boustan - Afterword: Rabbinization and the Persistence of Diversity in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship.
9781783749959
Electronic books.
Diversity and Rabbinization : Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 CE. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (504 pages) - Semitic Languages and Cultures Series ; v.8 . - Semitic Languages and Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Synagogue -- Lee I. Levine - 1. Diversity in the Ancient Synagogue of Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Historical Implications -- Michael D. Swartz - 2. Society and the Self in Early Piyyut -- Jos�e Costa - 3. Some Remarks about Non-Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinization, and Synagogal Judaism -- PART 2. EVIDENCE FOR NON-RABBINIC JUDAISM: THE NEAR EAST -- Geoffrey Herman - 4. In Search of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia -- Robert Brody - 5. Varieties of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Geonic and Contemporaneous Sources -- Yoram Erder - 6. Karaites and Sadducees -- Christian Julien Robin - 7. The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Ḥimyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion -- Part 3. Evidence for Non-Rabbinic Judaism: Europe -- Capucine Nemo-Pekelman - 8. The Didascalus Annas: A Jewish Political and Intellectual Figure from the West -- Giancarlo Lacerenza - 9. Rabbis in Southern Italian Jewish Inscriptions from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages -- Michael Toch - 10. Jewish Demographics and Economics at the Onset of the European Middle Ages -- Part 4. Rabbinization -- Ron Naiweld - 11. The Rabbinization Tractates and the Propagation of Rabbinic Ideology in the Late Talmudic Period -- Daniel St�okl Ben Ezra - 12. Who is the Target of Toledot Yeshu? -- Gavin McDowell - 13. Rabbinization of Non-Rabbinic Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer -- G�unter Stemberger - 14. Seder Eliyahu Rabbah: Rabbinic Tradition for a Non-Rabbinic Society -- Ra'anan Boustan - Afterword: Rabbinization and the Persistence of Diversity in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship.
9781783749959
Electronic books.