The Cambridge history of Judaism. Volume 4, The late Roman-Rabbinic period / edited by Steven T. Katz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, Steven T., 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 1135 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from 70 CE to 640 CE (the rise of Islam). It deals with the major historical, political and cultural developments in Jewish history and the history of Judaism in this crucial era during which Judaism took on its classical shape. It provides discussion and analysis of all the essential subjects pertinent to an understanding of this period, and is especially strong in its coverage of the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections. In addition, it surveys the early encounter of Judaism and Christianity from both the Jewish and Christian sides and describes the rise of Jewish mystical literature, the liturgical literature of the developing synagogue, the nature of magical practices in classical Judaism and Jewish Folklore.

Contents:

Political, social, and economic life in the Land of Israel, 66-c. 235 / Seth Schwartz

The Diaspora from 66 to c. 235 CE: I. The Jews in Egypt and Cyrenaica, 66-c. 235 CE / Allen Kerkeslager

The Jews in Carthage and western North Africa, 66-235 CE / Claudia Setzer

The Jews in Asia Minor, 66-c. 235 CE / Paul Trebilco

The Jews in Babylonia, 66-c. 235 CE / David Goodblatt

The uprisings in the Jewish Diaspora, 116-117 / Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev

The Bar Kochba Revolt, 132-135 / Hanan Eshel

The legal status of the Jews in the Roman Empire / Amnon Linder

Jewish art and architecture in the land of Israel, 70-c. 235 / Eric M. Meyers

The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple: its meaning and its consequences / Robert Goldenberg

The origins and development of the rabbinic movement in the Land of Israel / Hayim Lapin

The canonical process / James A. Sanders

The beginnings of Christian anti-Judaism, 70-c. 235.

Peter Richardson

The rabbinic response to Christianity / Steven T. Katz

The Mishnah / David Kraemer

The Tosefta / Paul Mandel

Midrash Halachah / Jay M. Harris

Mishnaic Hebrew: an introductory survey / Moshe Bar-Asher

The political and social history of the Jewish community in the Land of Israel, c. 235-638 / David Goodblatt

The material realities of Jewish life in the Land of Israel, c. 235-638 / Joshua J. Schwartz

Aramaic in late antiquity / Yochanan Breuer

The Diaspora, c. 235-638: I. The Jews of Italy, c. 235-638 / Leonard V. Rutgers

The Jews of Spain, c. 235-638 / Scott Bradbury

Jewish archaeology in late antiquity: art, architecture, and inscriptions / Lee I. Levine

Jewish festivals in late antiquity / Joseph Tabory

Rabbinic prayer in late antiquity / Reuven Kimelman

Rabbinic views on marriage, sexuality, and the family / Michael L. Satlow

Women in Jewish life and law.

Tal Ilan

Gentiles in rabbinic thought / David Novak

The formation and character of the Jerusalem Talmud / Leib Moscovitz

The late midrashic, paytanic, and targumic literature / Abigdor Shinan

Jewish magic in late antiquity / Michael D. Swartz

Jewish folk literature in late antiquity / Eli Yassif

Early forms of Jewish mysticism / Rachel Elior

The political, social, and economic history of Babylonian Jewry, 224-638 CE / Isaiah M. Gafni

The history of the Babylonian academies / David Goodblatt

The formation and character of the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin

Talmudic law: a jurisprudential perspective / Hanina Ben-Menahem

Torah in rabbinic thought: the theology of learning / Marc Hirshman

Man, sin, and redemption in rabbinic Judaism / Steven T. Katz

The rabbinic theology of the physical: blessings, body and soul, resurrection, and covenant and election / Reuven Kimelman.

Christian anti-Judaism: polemics and policies / Paula Fredriksen, Oded Irshai

Jews in Byzantium / Steven Bowman

Messianism and apocalypticism in rabbinic texts / Lawrence H. Schiffman

Appendix: Justinian and the revision of Jewish legal status / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello.

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9781139055130 (ebook)

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