Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism : The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi / Catherine Hezser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hezser, Catherine, author.

Series:

Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World.

Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social-historical and literary-historical perspectives. The book focuses on the compilation of the Talmud Yerushalmi in the context of late antique scholarly practice aimed at preserving past knowledge for future generations. This book provides insight into how rabbinic scholarship in the Land of Israel participated in the wider intellectual practices of Roman-Byzantine times. Beginning with the social, educational, and legal contexts that generated rabbinic knowledge. Catherine Hezser goes on to investigate the oral and written transmission of rabbinic traditions to eventually examine the compilation of the Talmud Yerushalmi with a comparative and redaction-historical approach. Integrating Palestinian rabbinic education and scholarship into the context of late antique Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Christian scholarly practices, Catherine Hezser demonstrates how rabbinic compilatory techniques resembled but also differed from.those of Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian scholars. The book highlights how rabbinic compilations are idiosyncratic and create a distinct rabbinic identity. Overall, Hezser argues that rabbinic scholarship was an integral part of late antique intellectual life in the Near Middle East and should be recognized as an Eastern equivalent to Western, paideia-based forms of scholarship in the Roman-Byzantine period and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction Part I: The Generation of Knowledge 1. Rabbis as Intellectuals 2. Disciple Circles 3. Schools 4. Study Sessions 5. Dialogues and Disputes 6. Lived Knowledge 7. Adjudication Part II: The Transmission of Knowledge 1. Attributions and Chains of Transmission 2. Orality and Writing 3. Tradition 4. Forms of Transmission 5. Pre-Redactional Collections Part III: The Preservation of Knowledge 1. Collection and Selection 2. Editing Procedures 3. The Structure of the Compilations 4. Scribes versus Editors 5. The Purposes of the Compilations Conclusions Bibliography Indexes

ISBN:

9781350421004

1350421006

9781350420991

1350420999

9781350421011

1350421014

OCLC:

1450720621