What Were the Early Rabbis?: An Introduction from a Sociocultural Perspective (Westar Studies) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 9: Westar Studies

Lightstone, Jack N.

 
9781666762471: What Were the Early Rabbis?: An Introduction from a Sociocultural Perspective (Westar Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1666762474 ISBN 13: 9781666762471
Verlag: Cascade Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of “the gods” largely gave way to the worship of YHWH, the God of Israel, under Christianity and Islam, both developments of contemporary Judaism, after Rome destroyed Judaism’s central shrine, the Jerusalem Temple, in 70 CE. But concomitant changes occurred within contemporary Judaism. The events of 70 wiped away well-established Judaic institutions in the Land of Israel, and over time the authority of a cadre of new “masters” of Judaic law, life, and practice, the “rabbis,” took hold.

What was the core, professional-like profile of members of this emerging cadre in the late second and early third centuries, when this group first attained a level of stable institutionalization (even if not yet well-established authority)? What views did they promote about the authoritative basis of their profile? What in their surrounding and antecedent sociocultural contexts lent prima facie legitimacy and currency to that profile? Geared to a nonspecialist readership, What Were the Early Rabbis? addresses these questions and consequently sheds light on eventual shifts in power that came to underpin Judaic communal life, while Christianity and Islam “Judaized” non-Jews under their expansive hegemonies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack N. Lightstone is professor emeritus of history at Brock University (St. Catharines, Niagara Region), where he also served as president and vice chancellor, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion at Concordia University (Montreal). He has had a forty-six-year-long career that combined teaching and research in the history and the social-scientific study of religion in society with senior university administration. His most recent publication with Cascade Books is In the Seat of Moses (2020).

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Verlag
Cascade Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1666762474
ISBN 13 
9781666762471
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