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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2013, c2013
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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 |
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Physical Description: | xi, 255 p. |
ISBN: | 9780199345793 |