The stabilization of rabbinic culture, 100 C.E.-350 C.E. : texts on education and their late antique context

Publication Data

• Title The stabilization of rabbinic culture, 100 C.E.-350 C.E. : texts on education and their late antique context
• Author Marc G. Hirshman
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Contours of rabbinic study: an introduction
Learning, speech, and thought in late antiquity
Sifre Deuteronomy: the precariousness of oral Torah
A talmudic primer on education (Eruvin 53a-55a)
Cultures in conflict (Avoda zara 18b-19b)
Education and accountability (Bava batra 20b-22a)
Teaching with authority: a comparative view
The stabilization of rabbinic culture
Appendix I: a survey of secondary literature on education and literacy in rabbinic literature
Appendix II: portraits of Jewish sages engaged in study.

Topics

• Judaism :: History :: Talmudic period, 10-425
• Jewish learning and scholarship :: History :: To 1500
• Jewish religious education :: History :: To 1500
• Tannaim
• Amoraim
• Rabbinical literature :: History and criticism
• Middle East :: Religion
• Middle East

The stabilization of rabbinic culture, 100 C.E.-350 C.E. : texts on education and their late antique context by Marc G. Hirshman. ISBN 9780195387742. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.