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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins? In order to shed light on the early social formation of the rabbinic guild of masters, Lightstone brings the theoretical and methodological insights of socio-rhetorical analysis to examine Mishnah, the first document authored by the early rabbinic movement and its principal object of study for several centuries. He argues that the enshrinement of Mishnah served to model, via its pervasive rhetoric, the principal authoritative guild expertise that qu. |
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Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Focusing on the Social Meaning of Mishnaic Rhetoric; 2. Mishnaic Rhetoric; 3. Tosefta's (Dis)simulation of Mishnah's Rhetoric; 4. Semahot' s Remaking of Mishnah's Rhetoric; 5. Summary and Conclusions: Rhetoric and Role-Mishnah, Material Evidence and the Emergence of the Rabbinic Guild in Late-Second-Century Galilee; Appendix: A Comparison of Mishnah Gittin 1:1-2:2 and James 2:1-13 from the Perspective of Greco-Roman Rhetorical Elaboration; References and Selected Bibliography; General Index. |
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Mishnah -- Socio-rhetorical criticism. |
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Mishnah -- Socio-rhetorical criticism.
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Mishnah. |
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Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works. |
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Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
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Electronic books.
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Robbins, Vernon K.
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Print version: Lightstone, Jack N. Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild : A Socio-Rhetorical Approach. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889203754 |
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9780889207295 (electronic book) |
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0889207291 (electronic book) |
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