Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Contents [Seite 8]
3 - Acknowledgements [Seite 10]
4 - Introduction: The Formation of the Rabbinic Community [Seite 12]
4.1 - I. Yavneh and the Myth of Origins [Seite 15]
4.2 - II. The Sage Idea and the Development of a Collective [Seite 19]
4.3 - III. Heresy and the Formation of Community [Seite 25]
4.4 - IV. A Note on Style and Method [Seite 30]
5 - Chapter 1: The Meaning and End of Heresy in Rabbinic Literature [Seite 38]
5.1 - I. Heresy in Rabbinic Literature? [Seite 39]
5.2 - II. Heresy as a Category [Seite 43]
5.3 - III. Heresy as hairesis [Seite 48]
5.4 - IV. Heresy as Heresiological Discourse [Seite 52]
5.5 - V. Heresy and Boundary Rhetoric in the Ancient World [Seite 59]
6 - Chapter 2: Varieties of Minim in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Period [Seite 61]
6.1 - I. Heresy and Minut [Seite 62]
6.2 - II. Minim as Insiders in the Late Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Periods [Seite 68]
6.3 - III. Minim as Hybrids in the Early Christian Period [Seite 83]
6.4 - IV. Minim as Outsiders in the Late Rabbinic Period [Seite 99]
7 - Chapter 3: Co-opting the Sinners of Israel [Seite 103]
7.1 - I. The Sinners of Israel and the Sinners of the Nations of the World [Seite 103]
7.2 - II. Sinners, Pomegranates, and Good Deeds [Seite 109]
7.3 - III. An Israelite Who Sins [Seite 117]
7.4 - IV. All Israel Have a Portion in the World to Come [Seite 121]
8 - Chapter 4: Meshummadim Who Provoke the Rabbis [Seite 127]
8.1 - I. Meshummadim, Apostates, and "The Time of Persecutions" [Seite 128]
8.2 - II. Flagrant Meshummadim [Seite 138]
8.3 - III. Meshummadim From Appetite and To Provoke [Seite 143]
8.4 - IV. Provoking the Torah and the Rabbis [Seite 150]
9 - Chapter 5: Apiqorsim Who Disrespect the Rabbis [Seite 155]
9.1 - I. Epicureans, Sadducees, and Divine Providence [Seite 156]
9.2 - II. Disrespecting the Rabbis [Seite 163]
9.3 - III. Apiqorsim and Irreverence [Seite 167]
9.4 - IV. Apiqorsim, minim, and Dangerous Verses [Seite 169]
9.5 - V. Know How to Avoid an Apiqoros [Seite 173]
10 - Chapter 6: Two Powers and the Ascent of Rabbi Elisha [Seite 178]
10.1 - I. Elisha ben Abuyah as an Absolute Other [Seite 179]
10.2 - II. Elisha ben Abuyah as a Failed Rabbi [Seite 182]
10.3 - III. Elisha's Ascent and Divine Multiplicity [Seite 187]
10.4 - IV. Metatron's Transgression and Heavenly Proscriptions [Seite 196]
10.5 - V. Elisha's Transgression and the Heavenly Voice [Seite 198]
11 - Chapter 7: The Failed Rabbi and Those Who Cause the Public to Sin [Seite 204]
11.1 - I. The Mechanics of Atonement in Rabbinic Tradition [Seite 205]
11.2 - II. Gehazi as a Failed Rabbi [Seite 211]
11.3 - III. The Failed Rabbi in the Babylonian Talmud [Seite 217]
12 - Conclusion: Boundary Rhetoric, Community Formation, and Rabbinic Judaism [Seite 228]
13 - Appendix: Synoptic Presentation of b. Hagigah 15a and 3 Enoch for Chapter Six [Seite 236]
14 - Bibliography [Seite 238]
15 - Index of Primary Sources [Seite 260]
15.1 - I. Hebrew Bible [Seite 260]
15.2 - II. Second Temple Period Jewish Literature [Seite 261]
15.3 - III. New Testament [Seite 262]
15.4 - IV. Rabbinic Literature [Seite 262]
15.4.1 - Mishnah [Seite 263]
15.4.2 - Tannaitic Midrash [Seite 264]
15.4.3 - Palestinian Talmud [Seite 265]
15.4.4 - Classical Palestinian Midrash [Seite 266]
15.4.5 - Later Midrash [Seite 269]
15.5 - V. Greco-Roman and Early Christian Literature [Seite 270]
15.6 - VI. Hekhalot and Medieval Jewish Literature [Seite 270]
16 - Index of Modern Authors [Seite 272]
17 - Index of Subjects [Seite 277]