商品簡介
Seven original essays contextualize Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their as well as with their own tradition. The contributors, who are identified only by name, explore texts from the first century before the Common Era through late antiquity to the Middle Ages to challenge assumptions about Judaism during and after the Second Temple period. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Editor Rivka Ulmer holds the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at Bucknell University. She received an M.A. in Jewish Studies and English, as well as a Dr.Phil. in Jewish Studies from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat. She is the author of numerous scholarly works, including A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps also from the University Press of America.
