The place of Oral Matters in Geonic culture -- Oral Matters among Jews of Qayrawan and al-Andalus: framing Sefarad -- Framing Ashkenaz: cultural landmarks of Medieval Northern European societies -- Textualization of North European rabbinic culture: the changing role of Talmud -- Medieval responses to the textualization of rabbinic culture -- Rhineland pietism and the textualization of rabbinic culture in Medieval Northern Europe
Summary
In this work, the author examines the ways circumstances of transmission shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life
Analysis
Jewish Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Religion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-387) and index
