Pluralistic Halakhah
Subtitle: Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods (Studia Judaica)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9783110176360
Subjects: History; Jewish studies; Judaism; Sacred texts; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Judaism - History; Judaism - General
First sentence: The most outstanding difference between the pre- and post-70 periods is the pluralism of the halakhic environment, with respect to both doctrine and practice, which characterized the pre-70 period, as opposed to the quest for a fixed halakhah in the post-70 period.