Rabbis as Romans : the rabbinic movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapin, Hayim, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabbis--Office--Talmudic period, 10-425--Palestine.

Rabbis.

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

Judaism.

Jews--History.

Jews.

Palestine--History--70-638.

Palestine.

Palestine--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Rabbis as Romans

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy.

Contents:

Setting the stage: the making of a Roman province

Rabbis in Palestine: texts, origins, development

The formation of a provincial religious movement

Provincial arbitration: cases and rabbinic authority

Romanization and its discontents: rabbis and provincial culture

Epilogue: rabbis in Palestine, fifth to eighth century

Appendix: rabbinic cases.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).