The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University, California
Martin S. Jaffee, University of Washington
Martin S. Jaffee, University of Washington
October 2012
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This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
- Clear, accessible introduction to the Talmud and Rabbinic literature, and the academic disciplines that currently explore it
- Essays by major contemporary scholars - all of the contributors are leaders in this field
- Extensive bibliographical guidance to the field
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I:
- 1. Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise Martin S. Jaffee
- 2. The orality of Rabbinic writing Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
- 3. Social and institutional settings of Rabbinic literature Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
- 4. The political geography of Rabbinic texts Seth Schwartz
- Part II:
- 5. Rabbinic Midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation Steven D. Fraade
- 6. The Judaean legal tradition and the Halakhah of the Mishnah Shaye J. D. Cohen
- 7. Roman law and Rabbinic legal composition Catherine Hezser
- 8. Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages: accommodation and resistance in the shaping of Rabbinic legal tradition Yaakov Elman
- 9. Jewish visionary tradition in Rabbinic literature Michael D. Swartz
- 10. The almost invisible presence of the other: multi-lingual puns in Rabbinic literature Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Park III:
- 11. The 'other' in Rabbinic literature Christine Hayes
- 12. Regulating the human body: Rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
- 13. Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past Isaiah Gafni
- 14. Rabbinic ethical formational and the formation of Rabbinic ethical compilations Jonathan Wyn Schofer
- 15. Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia Daniel Boyarin.
