[PDF.43yk] The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

[PDF.yt70] The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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 | #2690670 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2012-10-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Important|By Joel L. Watts|Naftali S. Cohn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) presents a powerful work inching us towards to the goal of understanding how texts can not only legitimate authority but also create identities. I'm simply unsure if he understands just how close he has come. Cohn writes to convince us the Rabbis used (or created) the memory of the Temple as a way to| ||"A learned, nuanced, and well-written study of an important theme in a foundational text of rabbinic Judaism. Cohn shows that we must look outside rabbinic literature if we are to place the Mishnah in a meaningful context. Well done."—Shaye J. D. Cohen,

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They describe...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)   |  Naftali S. Cohn. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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