The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E.: Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context

by Marc Hirshman

Book Overview

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 rabbinic literature and a demonstration of the development of rabbinic thought on education in the first centuries of the Common Era. In Roman Palestine and Sasanid Persia, a small group of approximately two thousand Jewish scholars and rabbis sustained a thriving national and educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199937532
• ISBN13: 9780199937530
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"