Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and o…
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman's guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human's calamities and the legal ramifications of her lower social and legal status regarding independ…
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman's guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human's calamities and the legal ramifications of her lower social and legal status regarding independ…
This text offers a perspective on rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology and anatomy, and the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. It is set in the context of Jewish and Christian culture.
"With the publication of this volume, the Anchor Bible Reference Library achieves a landmark in the history of rabbinic literature and religion. In Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, legendary author Jacob Neusner collects the essence of a lifetime of scholarship. In short, th…
"With the publication of this volume, the Anchor Bible Reference Library achieves a landmark in the history of rabbinic literature and religion. In Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, legendary author Jacob Neusner collects the essence of a lifetime of scholarship. In short, th…
This book challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that of Sephardic Jews, this study shows…
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…
