Authors: Richard Kalmin
ISBN-13: 9780415196956, ISBN-10: 0415196957
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: New Edition
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity explores the social position of rabbis in Palestinian (Roman) and Babylonian (Persian) society from the period of the fall of the Temple to late antiquity. Author Richard Kalmin argues that ancient rabbinic sources depict comparable differences between Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic relationships with non-Rabbis. The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity provides a cultured and stimulating analysis of the role of the sage in late antiquity and sheds new light on rabbinic comments on such diverse topics as biblical heroes and genealogy and lineage.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Historical studies | 25 |
1 | Non-rabbinic Jews | 27 |
2 | Genealogy | 51 |
3 | Hasmonean royalty | 61 |
4 | Bible-reading non-Jews and heretics | 68 |
5 | Rainmaking | 75 |
Pt. II | Exegetical studies | 81 |
6 | King David | 83 |
7 | Moses | 94 |
8 | Ahitofel | 101 |
Conclusion | 110 | |
Notes | 115 | |
Bibliography | 153 | |
General index | 165 | |
Index of rabbinic and other ancient sources | 171 |