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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightstone, Jack N.

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 11.

Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et la judaisme ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Judaism.

Mishnah--Socio-rhetorical criticism.

Mishnah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion."

Includes bibliographical references: p. [217]-229 and index.

ISBN:

9786610925988

9781280925986

1280925981

9780889207295

0889207291

OCLC:

753479530