"Jaffee's effort to rethink the nature and history of Oral Torah as a discipleship praxis and ideology of tradition will be of interest to students of the relationship of oral to literary textual practices, as well as to students of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and…
Through analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee shows that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it in the present, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes but that the oral tradition always takes precedence.
"Oral Torah is the comprehensive body of exegetical, theological, ritual, and legal tradition preserved within rabbinic Judaism. Transmitted in small, face-to-face discipleship circles in rabbinic communities from the Galilee to Mesopotamia, this tradition came to be the princip…
Through analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee shows that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it in the present, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes but that the oral tradition always takes precedence.
Through analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee shows that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it in the present, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes but that the oral tradition always takes precedence.
"Oral Torah is the comprehensive body of exegetical, theological, ritual, and legal tradition preserved within rabbinic Judaism. Transmitted in small, face-to-face discipleship circles in rabbinic communities from the Galilee to Mesopotamia, this tradition came to be the princip…