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| Title: Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism Secondary Title: KTAV Type: Generic Year: 1998 Abstract: "Feldman, Louis Harry in: OTA 21,2 (1998) 370: This is a collection of primary materials, intended to accompany S.'s From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV, 1991). The selections are from the Bible (historical sketch, a historiography of civilization, revelation and law, sacrifice and priesthood, prophecy, wisdom literature); Judaism in the Persian period (historical and archaeological background, political affairs, the Second Temple, the Samaritan schism, Midrash and the foundations of Jewish law, the literature of the period, the canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures); the Hellenistic Age (Hellenism as a cultural phenomenon, under the Ptolemies and Seleucids, the Jerusalem Temple and priesthood, the Gerousia, Hellenistic trends in Palestinian Judaism Hellenistic reform and the Maccabean revolt); Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora (the early history of Babylonian Jewry, Jews in the Hellenistic world, political, social, and economic developments, religious life, anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic world, the literature of the Hellenistic diaspora); Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth (the Hasmonean dynasty, Pharisees and Sadducees, Apocalyptics and ascetics, the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls); the Jewish-Christian Schism (Judea under roman rule, Herodian rule, Judea under the procurators, the rise of the early church, parting of the ways, Jewish-Christian relations in the early centuries); Revolt and Restoration (the Great Revolt, destruction and its aftermath, from Temple to synagogue, restoration of autonomy: the authority of the Rabbis, Josephus: historian of the Great Revolt, the Bar Kokhba Revolt, rebuilding for the future); Mishnah: the New Sricpture (from Pharisees to rabbis, written and oral Torah, Tannaitic academies, Midrash and Mishnah, Halakhah and Aggadah, the redaction of the Mishnah, other Tannaitic texts); Formative Judaism comes of Age (decline of Hellenistic Judaism, under Byzantine Christianity, by the rivers of Babylon); The Sea of the Talmud (Amoraic schools, from Amoraic interpretation to Talmudic Texts, the Palestinian Talmud, the Babylonian Talmud, the exegetical and homiletical midrashim, Jewish liturgy); The Life of Trorah (the world of the Aggadah, the daily life of the Jew, sanctuaries in time, the sanctified table, marriage and the family, ritual purity and impurity, life cycle, study in the service of God, the mystic way); Epilogue: the hegemony of the Babylonian Talmud. There are brief introductions before and brief explanatory notes accompanying each selection. The volume closes with a brief bibliography and an index of sources." |