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oapen-20.500.12657-485432021-05-13T00:49:03Z Diversity and Rabbinization McDowell, Gavin Naiweld, Ron stoekl ben ezra, daniel Literature, Language and Culture; cultural diversity; Early Middle Age; Jewish communities; Late Antiquity; rabbis; religious diversity; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSR Religious groups: social & cultural aspects::JFSR1 Jewish studies bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFP Translation & interpretation "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. L’École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume." 2021-05-12T07:38:15Z 2021-05-12T07:38:15Z 2021 book 9781783749935 9781783749942 9781783749966 9781783749973 9781783749980 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48543 eng Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781783749959.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1209 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0219 10.11647/OBP.0219 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781783749935 9781783749942 9781783749966 9781783749973 9781783749980 ScholarLed 504 open access
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"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.
L’École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume."
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