Rabbis as Romans : the rabbinic movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE
Lapin, HayimAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage: the making of a Roman province -- Rabbis in Palestine: texts, origins, development -- The formation of a provincial religious movement -- Provincial arbitration: cases and rabbinic authority -- Romanization and its discontents: rabbis and provincial culture -- Epilogue: rabbis in Palestine, fifth to eighth century -- Appendix: rabbinic cases.
Rabbis
Judaism
Jews
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Judaism