- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Hebrew terms
- Introduction
-
1 Using Rabbinic Literature as a Source for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: Problems and Issues1 -
2 The Palestinian Context of Rabbinic Judaism -
3 Research into Rabbinic Literature: An Attempt to Define the Status Quaestionis -
4 The Status Quaestionis of Research in Rabbinic Literature -
5 Current Views on the Editing of the Rabbinic Texts of late Antiquity: Reflections on a Debate after Twenty Years -
6 The State of Mishnah Studies -
7 The Tosefta and Its Value for Historical Research: Questioning the Historical Reliability of Case Stories -
8 Halakhic Midrashim as Historical Sources -
9 The Talmud Yerushalmi -
10 Problems in the Use of the Babylonian Talmud for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: The Example of Astrology -
11 Literary Structures and Historical Reconstruction: The Example of an Amoraic Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah) -
12 The Future of Ancient Piyyut -
13 Targum -
14 The Epistle of Sherira Gaon -
15 Hekhalot Literature and the Origins of Jewish Mysticism -
16 ‘Rabbinic Culture’ and Roman Culture -
17 Material Culture and Daily Life -
18 Rabbinic Literature and the History of Judaism in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Methodologies and New Approaches -
19 Rabbinic Perceptions of Christianity and the History of Roman Palestine -
20 Politics and Administration -
21 Economy and Society - Conclusion
- Index
Using Rabbinic Literature as a Source for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: Problems and Issues1
Using Rabbinic Literature as a Source for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: Problems and Issues1
- Chapter:
- (p.7) 1 Using Rabbinic Literature as a Source for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: Problems and Issues1
- Source:
- Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine
- Author(s):
PHILIP ALEXANDER
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines problems concerning the use of rabbinic literature as a resource for studying the history of late-Roman Palestine. It discusses the rabbinic corpus, the composition and transmission of the texts, the language and the genres of rabbinic literature. It concludes that rabbinic literature requires very heavy processing before its potential as a historical source can be realised and it states that the extent to which scholars engaged with this literature have done the preliminary work remains patchy.
Keywords: rabbinic literature, late-Roman Palestine, history, rabbinic corpus, historical resource, transmission of texts
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Hebrew terms
- Introduction
-
1 Using Rabbinic Literature as a Source for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: Problems and Issues1 -
2 The Palestinian Context of Rabbinic Judaism -
3 Research into Rabbinic Literature: An Attempt to Define the Status Quaestionis -
4 The Status Quaestionis of Research in Rabbinic Literature -
5 Current Views on the Editing of the Rabbinic Texts of late Antiquity: Reflections on a Debate after Twenty Years -
6 The State of Mishnah Studies -
7 The Tosefta and Its Value for Historical Research: Questioning the Historical Reliability of Case Stories -
8 Halakhic Midrashim as Historical Sources -
9 The Talmud Yerushalmi -
10 Problems in the Use of the Babylonian Talmud for the History of Late-Roman Palestine: The Example of Astrology -
11 Literary Structures and Historical Reconstruction: The Example of an Amoraic Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah) -
12 The Future of Ancient Piyyut -
13 Targum -
14 The Epistle of Sherira Gaon -
15 Hekhalot Literature and the Origins of Jewish Mysticism -
16 ‘Rabbinic Culture’ and Roman Culture -
17 Material Culture and Daily Life -
18 Rabbinic Literature and the History of Judaism in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Methodologies and New Approaches -
19 Rabbinic Perceptions of Christianity and the History of Roman Palestine -
20 Politics and Administration -
21 Economy and Society - Conclusion
- Index
