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In this volume, E. P. Sanders presents five studies that advance the re-examination of the nature of Jewish law that he began in Jesus and Judaism (Fortress Press, 1985). As usual, he is able to shed new light on old questions and demonstrate that many accepted interpretations are misguided.
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A chapter on "The Synoptic Jesus and the Law" considers how serious the legal issues discussed between Jesus and his opponents would have been, had they been...
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"In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70 CE, concepts that might once have seemed bizarre became normalized-and thus passed...
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"Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the...
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South Florida studies in the history of Judaism volume no. 148-151
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Scholars Press
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Richard lectures volume 1981-82
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University Press of Virginia
Pub. Date
1983
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English
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Princeton University Press
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[2025]
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English
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"This book tells the story of how a small group of Jewish scholars became religious experts within the Jewish communities of Roman Palestine from the second through fifth centuries C.E. -- thereby becoming the first rabbis"--
"How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine at the turn of the common era. The Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small group of literate Jewish...
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Brill
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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"Condensing research concerning questions of religion which encompass the social history of ideas and the religious uses of language, this book deals with three questions: the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture, the relationship of the religious ideas people hold to the world in which they live, and the religious meaning of the formalization of language that characterizes the Mishnah in particular."--Jacket.
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Brown Judaic studies volume no. 37
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Scholars Press
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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"With the publication of this volume, the Anchor Bible Reference Library achieves a landmark in the history of rabbinic literature and religion. In Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, legendary author Jacob Neusner collects the essence of a lifetime of scholarship. In short, this book explores the formative age of rabbinic literature, and tells in a simple, straightforward way what these documents are, where to find them, how to read them, and why...