The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis / / Naftali S. Cohn.

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• VerfasserIn: Cohn, Naftali S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 illus.

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruct...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Notes on Usage
• Introduction. The Narration of Temple Ritual as Rabbinic Memory in the Late Second or Early Third Century
• Chapter 1. Rabbis as Jurists of Judaean Ritual Law and Competing Claims for Authority
• Chapter 2. The Temple, the Great Court, and the Rabbinic Invention of the past
• Chapter 3. Narrative form and Rabbinic Authority
• Chapter 4. Constructing Sacred Space
• Chapter 5. The Mishnah in the Context of a Wider Judaean, Christian, and Roman Temple Discourse
• Conclusion: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
• Appendix A: The Mishnah's Temple Ritual Narratives and Court-Centered Ritual Narratives
• Appendix B: Mishnaic Narratives in Which a Rabbi or Rabbis Issue an Opinion with Respect to a Case
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments