| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 126 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judaisme ; 3
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Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-120) and index. |
| Summary |
This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman Disapora down to the end of the fourth century of the Christian Era; (3) earliest rabbinic Judaism in the second century C.E> in the land of Israel; (4) Late Antique Talmudic Rabbinism, primarily inn Babylonia, down to the sixth century of the Christian Era. Lightstone attempts not only to describe the. |
| Contents |
Preface; Transliterations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The "Restoration" Community and the "Torah of Moses"; Chapter Three: Diaspora, Sources of the Sacred, and Torah as Holy Relic; Chapter Four: Earliest Rabbinic Circles, Mishnah, and Scripture as Closed System; Chapter Five: Talmudic Rabbinism, Midrash, and the Fragmentation of Scripture; Notes; Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations; General Subject Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible. Pentateuch -- History.
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Bible. Pentateuch. |
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History. |
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Bible. A.T. Pentateuque -- Histoire. |
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Bible. Pentateuch. |
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
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Rabbinical literature. |
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Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D.
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Judaism. |
| Chronological Term |
To 70 A.D |
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Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
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| Chronological Term |
To 425 |
| Indexed Term |
Bible O.T Pentateuch History |
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Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425 |
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Judaism History To 70 A.D |
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Rabbinical literature History and criticism |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lightstone, Jack N. Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism. Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988 (DLC) 88197226 |
| ISBN |
0889209758 |
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9780889209756 |
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0889207275 (electronic book) |
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9780889207271 (electronic book) |
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