TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neusner,Jacob
AU  - Avery-Peck,Alan J.
AU  - Chilton,Bruce
TI  - Judaism in late antiquity
T2  - Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, der Nahe und Mittlere Osten,
SN  - 9789004294172
AV  - BM176 .J8 2001
U1  - 296/.09/015 20
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Sources
KW  - Post-exilic period (Judaism)
KW  - fast
N1  - Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner; Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preliminary material; Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner --; THE QUESTION OF THE SYNAGOGUE: THE PROBLEM OF TYPOLOGY; Jodi Magness --; THE DATING OF THE GUSH HALAV SYNAGOGUE: A RESPONSE TO JODI MAGNESS; Eric M. Meyers --; SYNAGOGUE TYPOLOGY AND KHIRBET SHEMAÊ¿: A RESPONSE TO JODI MAGNESS; James F. Strange --; A RESPONSE TO ERIC M. MEYERS AND JAMES F. STRANGE; Jodi Magness --; THE SYNAGOGUE AS METAPHOR; James F. Strange --; PROLEGOMENON TO A THEORY OF EARLY SYNAGOGUE DEVELOPMENT; Paul Y.M. Flesher --; THE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES AT BARÊ¿AM; Mordechai Aviam --; AN ARAMAIC AMULET FROM BARÊ¿AM; Joseph Naveh --; GENERAL INDEX; Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner --; HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK; Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - What, in Judaism - a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy - can we possibly mean by "law"? That is the thoroughly fresh perspective with which this work commences. It proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea library. Learning withers when criticism is substituted by political consensus, and when other than broadly accepted viewpoints find a hearing only with difficulty, if at all. The editors, therefore, invited colleagues from the USA, Europe, and Israel to systematically outline their views in one account and set it alongside contrary ones. The several participants explain how, in broad and sweeping terms, they see the state of learning in their areas of special interest. The volume provides first an overview, followed by a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus. In a number of accounts, the different perspectives are presented in scholarly debate. Because of the willingness of contending parties to meet one another in a single frame of discourse, the work is able to portray with considerable breadth the presently contending viewpoints concerning the use of Rabbinical literature for historical purposes. Besides this sustained and vigorous debate, precipitated by historical-critical reading of the rabbinical literature, other issues have attracted attention, such as, for example, feminist interests
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004294172
ER  -