The Literature of the Sages: A Re-Visioning: 16 (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum Ad Novum Testamentum) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 17: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum

Christine Hayes

 
9789004515420: The Literature of the Sages: A Re-Visioning: 16 (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum Ad Novum Testamentum)

Synopsis

This volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives – intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah – generating fresh insights that will reset the scholarly agenda.

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About the Author

Christine Hayes, Ph.D., (1993), UC Berkeley, is Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University. She has published articles and monographs in talmudic-midrashic studies, including Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (Oxford, 2002) and What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 2015), as well as edited volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Cambridge, 2017).

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