Rabbis as Romans
The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 August 2012
- ISBN 9780195179309
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 163x236x27 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as a distinctly intra-Jewish development, a response to the gaping need left by the tragic destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE. In this book, Hayim Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention for the first time to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy.
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Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as a distinctly intra-Jewish development, a response to the gaping need left by the tragic destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE. In Rabbis as Romans, Hayim Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention for the first time to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy. Lapin discusses how rabbis as a group were relatively well off, literate Jewish men, a kind of sub-elite in most provinces of the Roman empire. That rabbis were deeply embedded in a wider Roman world is clear from their marriage choices, the rhetoric they used to describe their own group (often mirroring that used for Greek philosophical schools), their open embrace of Roman bathing habits, and their ambivalence towards theaters and public entertainments. Rabbis also form one of the most accessible and well-documented examples of a 'nativizing' traditionalist movement in a Roman province. It was a movement committed to articulating the social, ritual, and moral boundaries between an Israelite 'us' and everyone else. To attend seriously to the contradictory position of rabbis as both within and outside of a provincial cultural economy, says Lapin, is both to uncover the historical contingencies that shaped what later generations understood as simply Judaism and to reexamine in a new light the cultural work of Roman provincialization itself.
The book constitutes a significant contribution to the study of judaism in late antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: The Making of a Roman Province
Chapter 2: Rabbis in Palestine: Texts, Origins, Development
Chapter 3: The Formation of a Provincial Religious Movement
Chapter 4: Provincial Arbitration: Cases and Rabbinic Authority
Chapter 5: Romanization and Its Discontents: Rabbis and Provincial Culture
Chapter 6: Epilogue: Rabbis in Palestine, Fifth to Eighth Century
Appendix: Rabbinic Cases
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