The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812244575
ISBN13:9780812244571
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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