The memory of the Temple and the making of the rabbis / Naftali S. Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Naftali S.

Series:

Divinations

Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)--In rabbinical literature.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Mishnah.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) in rabbinical literature.

Mishnah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Rabbis--Office.

Rabbis.

Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.

Judaism.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Contents:

The narration of temple ritual as rabbinic memory in the late second or early third century

Rabbis as jurists of Judean ritual law and competing claims for authority

The temple, the great court, and rabbinic invention of the past

Narrative form and rabbinic authority

Constructing sacred space

The Mishnah in the context of a wider Judean, Christian, and Roman temple discourse

The memory of the temple and the making of the rabbis

The Mishnah's temple ritual narratives and court-centered ritual narratives

Mishnaic narratives in which a rabbi or rabbis issue an opinion with respect to a case.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812244571

0812244575

OCLC:

785870978