
Diversity and Rabbinization
Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE
Open Book Publishers
Published on 1. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
504 pages
978-1-78374-993-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of "rabbinization" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts.
Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
758 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78374-993-5 (9781783749935)
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Diversity and Rabbinization
Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE
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