Socratic Torah non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture

This book investigates the self-perception and self-fashioning of the rabbis of Late Antiquity within a non-Jewish social and intellectual world. Rabbinic depictions of non-Jews interacting with rabbis are a window into how the rabbis viewed both non-Jews and themselves. Despite the highly internal...

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Main Author: Labendz, Jenny R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, c2013
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book investigates the self-perception and self-fashioning of the rabbis of Late Antiquity within a non-Jewish social and intellectual world. Rabbinic depictions of non-Jews interacting with rabbis are a window into how the rabbis viewed both non-Jews and themselves. Despite the highly internal and self-referential nature of rabbinic Torah study, some rabbis indeed imagined the involvement of non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture as an enriching aspect of the rabbis' own learning and teaching
Physical Description:xi, 255 p.
ISBN:9780199345793