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Author Lapin, Hayim

Title Rabbis as Romans : the rabbinic movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE / Hayim Lapin
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Contents Setting the stage: the making of a Roman province -- Rabbis in Palestine: texts, origins, development -- The formation of a provincial religious movement -- Provincial arbitration: cases and rabbinic authority -- Romanization and its discontents: rabbis and provincial culture -- Epilogue: rabbis in Palestine, fifth to eighth centuries -- Appendix: rabbinic cases
Summary Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as an intra-Jewish development. Lapin reconfigures that history, drawing attention to the extent to which rabbis participated in and were the product of a Roman and late-antique political economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jews -- History -- 70-638.
Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
Rabbis -- Palestine -- Office
Ethnic relations
Jews
Judaism -- Talmudic period
Rabbis -- Office
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Judaism.
SUBJECT Palestine -- Ethnic relations
Palestine -- History -- 70-638. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097168
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195179309
0195179307
9780199950355
0199950350