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The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E. - Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context (Hardcover)
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The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E. - Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context (Hardcover)
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Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last
century, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture is both an
introduction to a close reading of rabbinic literature and a
demonstration of the development of rabbinic thought on education
in the first centuries of the Common Era. In Roman Palestine and
Sasanid Persia, a small group of approximately two thousand Jewish
scholars and rabbis sustained a thriving national and educational
culture. They procured loyalty to the national language and oversaw
the retention of a national identity. This accomplishment was
unique in the Roman Near East, and few physical artifacts remain.
The scope of oral teaching, however, was vast and was committed to
writing only in the high Middle Ages. The content of this oral
tradition remains the staple of Jewish learning through modern
times.
Though oral learning was common in many ancient cultures, the
Jewish approach has a different theoretical basis and different
aims. Marc Hirshman explores the evolution and institutionalization
of Jewish culture in both Babylonian and Palestinian sources. At
its core, he argues, the Jewish cultural thrust in the first
centuries of the Common Era was a sustained effort to preserve the
language of its culture in its most pristine form. Hirshman traces
and outlines the ideals and practices of rabbinic learning as
presented in the relatively few extensive discussions of the
subject in late antique rabbinic sources. The Stabilization of
Rabbinic Culture is a pioneering attempt to characterize the unique
approach to learning developed by the rabbinic leadership in late
antiquity.
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