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Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE

  • Gavin McDowell (editor)
  • Ron Naiweld (editor)
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (editor)
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TitleDiversity and Rabbinization
SubtitleJewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE
ContributorGavin McDowell (editor)
Ron Naiweld (editor)
Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0219
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0219
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CopyrightGavin McDowell; Ron Naiweld; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Publication placeCambridge, UK
Published on2021-04-30
Series
  • Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 8
  • ISSN Print: 2632-6906
  • ISSN Digital: 2632-6914
ISBN978-1-78374-993-5 (Paperback)
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Short abstractThis volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period.
Long abstractThis volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of "rabbinization" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE.
Print length502 pages (xxiv+478)
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions156 x 26 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.01" x 9.21" (Paperback)
156 x 38 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.5" x 9.21" (Hardback)
Weight1544g | 54.46oz (Paperback)
2488g | 87.76oz (Hardback)
Media39 illustrations
OCLC Number1250645974
BIC
  • JF
  • JFSR1
  • CFF
  • CFP
BISAC
  • REL006020
  • LAN009010
Keywords
  • cultural diversity
  • religious diversity
  • Jewish communities
  • Late Antiquity
  • Early Middle Age
  • rabbis
Contents

1. Diversity in the Ancient Synagogue of Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Historical Implications

(pp. 3–32)
  • Lee I. Levine

2. Society and the Self in Early Piyyut

(pp. 33–66)
  • Michael D. Swartz

3. Some Remarks about Non-Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinization, and Synagogal Judaism

(pp. 67–118)
  • José Costa

4. In Search of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia

(pp. 121–138)
  • Geoffrey Herman

5. Varieties of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Geonic and Contemporaneous Sources

(pp. 139–152)
  • Robert Brody

6. Karaites and Sadducees

(pp. 153–164)
  • Yoram Erder

7. The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Ḥimyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion

(pp. 165–270)
  • Christian Julien Robin

8. The Didascalus Annas: A Jewish Political and Intellectual Figure from the West

(pp. 273–290)
  • Capucine Nemo-Pekelman

9. Rabbis in Southern Italian Jewish Inscriptions from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

(pp. 291–322)
  • Giancarlo Lacerenza

10. Jewish Demographics and Economics at the Onset of the European Middle Ages

(pp. 323–336)
  • Michael Toch

11. The Rabbinization Tractates and the Propagation of Rabbinic Ideology in the Late Talmudic Period

(pp. 339–358)
  • Ron Naiweld

12. Who is the Target of Toledot Yeshu?

(pp. 359–380)
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

13. Rabbinization of Non-Rabbinic Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer

(pp. 381–412)
  • Gavin McDowell

14. Seder Eliyahu Rabbah: Rabbinic Tradition for a Non-Rabbinic Society

(pp. 413–426)
  • Günter Stemberger

Afterword: Rabbinization and the Persistence of Diversity in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity

(pp. 427–450)
  • Ra‘anan Boustan

Introduction

(pp. xv–xxiv)
  • Gavin McDowell
  • Ron Naiweld
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
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Contributors

Gavin McDowell

(editor)
Institut d’études anciennes et médiévales at Université Laval

Ron Naiweld

(editor)
Centre de Recherches Historiques in Paris

Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

(editor)
École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL

UK registered social enterprise and Community Interest Company (CIC).

Company registration 14549556

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