Authors: Martin S. Jaffee
ISBN-13: 9780195140675, ISBN-10: 0195140672
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: New Edition
The classical Rabbinic tradition (legal, discursive, and exegetical) claims to be Oral Torah, transmitted by word of mouth in an unbroken chain deriving its authority ultimately from diving revelation to Moses at Sinai. Since the third century C.E., however, this tradition has been embodied in written texts. Through judicious deployment and analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee is able to show that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes.
Introduction | 3 | |
Pt. I | Oral Tradition and Second Temple Scribalism: The Spoken Word and Ideologies of the Book | |
1 | Social Settings of Literacy and Scribal Orality | 15 |
2 | Performative Reading and Text Interpretation at Qumran | 28 |
3 | The Media of Pharisaic Text-Interpretive Tradition | 39 |
Pt. II | Oral Tradition and Early Rabbinism: The Spoken Word in an Ideology of Tradition | |
4 | Tannaitic Tradition as an Object of Rabbinic Reflection | 65 |
5 | The Ideological Construction of Torah in the Mouth | 84 |
6 | Composing the Tannaitic Oral-Literary Tradition | 100 |
7 | Torah in the Mouth in Galilean Discipleship Communities | 126 |
8 | Epilogue | 153 |
Appendix | 157 | |
Notes | 161 | |
Bibliography | 211 | |
Index of Citations | 229 | |
General Index | 237 |