The Pluralistic Halakhah: Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods

by Paul Heger

This study examines by a meticulous analysis of abundant rabbinic citations the pluralism of the Halakhah in the pre-70 period which stands in contrast to the fixed Halakhah of later periods. The Temple's destruction provoked, for political motives, the initiation of this significant shift, which protracted itself, in developmental stages, for a longer period. The transition from the Tannaitic to the Amoraic era was a consequential turning point on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311017636X
• ISBN13: 9783110176360
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary