Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism

The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi

Catherine Hezser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350421028 (ISBN)

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Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social-historical and literary-historical perspectives. The book focuses on the compilation of the Talmud Yerushalmi in the context of late antique scholarly practice aimed at preserving past knowledge for future generations.

This book provides insight into how rabbinic scholarship in the Land of Israel participated in the wider intellectual practices of Roman-Byzantine times. Beginning with the social, educational, and legal contexts that generated rabbinic knowledge. Catherine Hezser goes on to investigate the oral and written transmission of rabbinic traditions to eventually examine the compilation of the Talmud Yerushalmi with a comparative and redaction-historical approach.

Integrating Palestinian rabbinic education and scholarship into the context of late antique Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Christian scholarly practices, Catherine Hezser demonstrates how rabbinic compilatory techniques resembled but also differed from.those of Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian scholars. The book highlights how rabbinic compilations are idiosyncratic and create a distinct rabbinic identity. Overall, Hezser argues that rabbinic scholarship was an integral part of late antique intellectual life in the Near Middle East and should be recognized as an Eastern equivalent to Western, paideia-based forms of scholarship in the Roman-Byzantine period and beyond.

Catherine Hezser is Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS University of London, UK.

Introduction
Part I: The Generation of Knowledge
1. Rabbis as Intellectuals
2. Disciple Circles
3. Schools
4. Study Sessions
5. Dialogues and Disputes
6. Lived Knowledge
7. Adjudication

Part II: The Transmission of Knowledge
1. Attributions and Chains of Transmission
2. Orality and Writing
3. Tradition
4. Forms of Transmission
5. Pre-Redactional Collections

Part III: The Preservation of Knowledge
1. Collection and Selection
2. Editing Procedures
3. The Structure of the Compilations
4. Scribes versus Editors
5. The Purposes of the Compilations
Conclusions
Bibliography
Indexes

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781350421028 / 9781350421028
Zustand	Neuware