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Category : Mishnah
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Sukkah, Mishna Ad Tosefta
Author: Tosefta Berachot
Author: Eliyahu GurevichPublisher: Eliyahu Gurevich
ISBN: 0557389852
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Tosefta is an ancient Jewish legal text that comprises a second compilation of the Oral law. This edition of the Tosefta, Tractate Berachot, is the first of its kind with an introduction, the edited Hebrew text based on ancient manuscripts, an English translation, and a comprehensive commentary in English. The author and translator, Eliyahu Gurevich, is an American-Israeli scholar, and creator of seforimonline.org and toseftaonline.org.
Rereading the Mishnah
Author: Judith HauptmanPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161487132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Judith Hauptman argues that the Tosefta, a collection dating from approximately the same time period as the Mishnah and authored by the same rabbis, is not later than the Mishnah, as its name suggests, but earlier. The Redactor of the Mishnah drew upon an old Mishnah and its associated supplement, the Tosefta, when composing his work. He reshaped, reorganized and abbreviated these materials in order to make them accord with his own legislative outlook. It is possible to compare the earlier and the later texts and to determine, case by case, the agenda of the Redactor. According to the author's theory it is also possible to trace the evolution of Jewish law, practice, and ideas. When the Mishnah is seen as later than the Tosefta, it becomes clear that the Redactor inserted numerous mnemonic devices into his work to assist in transmission. The synoptic gospels may have undergone a similar kind of editing.
The Mishnah
Author: Herbert DanbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198154020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Translated from the Hebrew with introduction and brief explanatory notes.
Early Christianity in Alexandria
Author: M. David LitwaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009449559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Utilizing the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings, this book explores the earliest development of Christianity in Alexandria.
Tractate Shabbath, Mishnah
Author: Tractates Tamid, Middot and Qinnim
Author: Dalia MarxPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161524967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Dalia Marx provides a general introduction and feminist commentary on the last three tractates of the order of Qodashim . Each tractate deals with different aspects of the Second Temple as perceived by the rabbis and each sheds its own light on gender issues. The commentary on Tamid, a tractate dealing with the priestly service in the Temple, discusses the priests as a gender unto themselves and considers women as potential participants in the lay-service of the Temple and perhaps even as part of the sacred service. Middot concerns itself with the design of the Temple, and the commentary explores sacred space from a gendered perspective. Finally, Marx turns to Qinnim, a tractate dealing with bird offerings, typically brought by women. The commentary shows how the tractate employs images of women to develop its discourse. This volume opens a unique window onto the rabbis' perspectives on the Temple and gender related matters.
The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
Author: Naftali S. CohnPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.
The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods
Author: Jeffrey L. RubensteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781930675339
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 1
Author: Emil SchürerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472558278
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891, is a critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135. It has rendered invaluable services to scholars for nearly a century. The present work offers a fresh translation and a revision of the entire subject-matter. The bibliographies have been rejuvenated and supplemented; the sources are presented according to the latest scholarly editions; and all the new archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic and literary evidence, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba documents, has been introduced into the survey. Account has also been taken of the progress in historical research, both in the classical and Jewish fields. This work reminds students of the profound debt owed to nineteenth-century learning, setting it within a wider framework of contemporary knowledge, and provides a foundation on which future historians of Judaism in the age of Jesus may build.