The literature of the sages. / Part 2, : Midrash and Targum, liturgy, poetry, mysticism, contracts, inscriptions, ancient science and the languages of rabbinic literature / / edited by Shmuel Safrai ... [and others].

• Superior document: Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 2, The literature of the Jewish people in the period of the Second Temple and the Talmud ; 3, 2
• Author: Stichting Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• TeilnehmendeR: Safrai, Shemuel, 1919-2003.; Stichting Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Place / Publishing House: Assen : : Royal Van Gorcum ;, Philadelphia : : Fortress Press,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 2/3/2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (791 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Section 2, Literature of the Jewish people in the period of the Second Temple and the Talmud.; Preliminary material /; The Halakhic Midrashim /; Aggadic Midrash /; The Works of Aggadic Midrash and the Esther Midrashim /; Seder Olam /; The Targums as Part of Rabbinic Literature /; Prayers and Berakhot /; The Passover Haggada /; Megillat Taanit - The Scroll of Fasting /; Piyyut /; 'Syriac for Dirges, Hebrew for Speech' - Ancient Jewish Poetry in Aramaic and Hebrew /; Mystical Texts /; Contracts: Rabbinic Literature and Ancient Jewish Documents /; Jewish Inscriptions and Their Use /; Medical Interest in Ancient Rabbinic Literature /; Geography and Cosmography in Talmudic Literature /; Biology in Rabbinic Literature: Fact and Folklore /; The Sages and the Occult /; Mishnaic Hebrew: An Introductory Survey /; The Aramaic of the Talmudic Period /; Rabbinic Knowledge of Greek /; Abbreviations /; Cumulative Bibliography /; Indices /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004275126
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Shmuel Safrai ... [and others].

This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages , First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned Compendia series. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a careful and succinct analysis of the content and character of various documents, their textual and literary forms, with particular attention to the ongoing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating groundbreaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. This volume will prove an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, the origins of Jewish tradition, and the Jewish background of Christianity. The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages – also ­called rabbinic literature – consists of the teachings of thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of this amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century C.E. and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of ­rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This long-awaited companion volume to 'The Literature of the Sages, First Part' (1987) gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. 'The Literature of the Sages, Second Part' is an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, as well as for those interested in the origins of Jewish tradition and the Jewish background of Christianity.