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The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E.
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Marc Hirshman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last century, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture is both an introduction to a close reading of
Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Lawrence Fine
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-04 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The ubiquity of friendship in human culture contributes to the fallacy that ideas about friendship have not changed and remained consistent throughout history.
Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Sean A. Adams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-23 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The purpose of this volume is to investigate scholastic culture in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a particular focus on ancient book and material culture
The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Rachel Neis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately from the first to seventh centuries). It tracks
Rabbis as Romans
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Hayim Lapin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the ext