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The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 3: The Literature of the Sages - Second Part: Midrash and Targum; Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism; Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science; and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover)
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The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 3: The Literature of the Sages - Second Part: Midrash and Targum; Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism; Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science; and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 2/3/2
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This long-awaited companion volume to "The Literature of the
Sages," First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion
Section II of the renowned Compendia series. The Literature of the
Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of
ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late
antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a
careful and succinct analysis of the content and character of
various documents, their textual and literary forms, with
particular attention to the ongoing discovery and publication of
new textual material. Incorporating groundbreaking developments in
research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published
here for the first time. This volume will prove an important
reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, the origins of
Jewish tradition, and the Jewish background of Christianity. The
literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages - also
-called rabbinic literature - consists of the teachings of
thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period,
their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of
flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of
this amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature
written down, a process that began in the third century C.E. and
continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of -rabbinic
literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process
of creation and editing. This long-awaited companion volume to 'The
Literature of the Sages, First Part' (1987) gives a careful and
succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the
various documents, and of their textual andliterary forms, paying
special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of
new textual material. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in
research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published
here for the first time. 'The Literature of the Sages, Second Part'
is an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism,
as well as for those interested in the origins of Jewish tradition
and the Jewish background of Christianity.
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