This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the
range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the
rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves
well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an
international collection of scholars to support students'' initial
steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.
Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume
includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies,
oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
目錄:
List of Contributors page ix
Acknowledgments xi
Brief Time Line of Rabbinic Literature
xiii
Glossary xvii
List of Abbreviations xxi
Introduction
Part I The Conditions of Rabbinic Literary
Activity
1. Rabbinic Authorship as a Collective
Enterprise
MARTIN S. JAFFEE
2. The Orality of Rabbinic Writing
ELIZABETH SHANKS ALEXANDER
3. Social and Institutional Settings of Rabbinic
Literature
JEFFREY L. RUBENSTEIN
4. The Political Geography of Rabbinic
Texts
SETH SCHWARTZ
Part II The Genres of Rabbinic Literary
Composition
5. Rabbinic Midrash and Ancient Jewish Biblical
Interpretation
STEVEN D. FRAADE
6. The Judaean Legal Tradition and the Halakhah
of the Mishnah
SHAYE J. D. COHEN
7. Roman Law and Rabbinic Legal
Composition
CATHERINE HEZSER
8. Middle Persian Culture and Babylonian Sages:
Accommodation and Resistance in the Shaping of Rabbinic Legal
Tradition
YAAKOV ELMAN
9. Jewish Visionary Tradition in Rabbinic
Literature
MICHAEL D. SWARTZ
10. The Almost Invisible Presence of the Other:
Multilingual Puns in Rabbinic Literature
GALIT HASAN-ROKEM
Part III Hermeneutical Frames for Interpreting Rabbinic
Literature
11. The “Other” in Rabbinic Literature
CHRISTINE HAYES
12. Regulating the Human Body: Rabbinic Legal
Discourse and the Making of Jewish Gender
CHARLOTTE ELISHEVA FONROBERT
13. Rabbinic Historiography and Representations
of the Past
ISAIAH GAFNI
14. Rabbinical Ethical Formation and the
Formation of Rabbinic Ethical Compilations
JONATHAN WYN SCHOFER
15. Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia
DANIEL BOYARIN
Bibliography
Index
Source Index