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Ancient Israel after catastrophe : the religious world view of the Mishnah

Title: Ancient Israel after catastrophe : the religious world view of the Mishnah / Jacob Neusner.
Author: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
Publication: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1983.

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Description

xii, 82 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Richard lectures ; 1981-82

Uniform Title

Richard lectures ; 1981-82.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Reconstruction in an age of defeat. Why context is crucial ; Why the Mishnah is important ; The Mishnah as enigma ; Age of hope and despair ; The center and the pivot : the temple ; Guilt and sin, atonement and reconciliation -- Stability in an age of disorder. Reaction and reactionism ; Stability and Scripture ; Stability and syntax ; From sources and style to substance -- Sanctification in an age of pollution. The temple at the center ; The Mishnah's system of sanctification ; Holy and unclean ; Sanctification and women ; Sanctification, time and space ; Sanctification and man : the centrality of the will ; Beyond catastrophe, before the end.

ISBN

0813909805
9780813909806

LCCN

82015972

OCLC

ocm08728645
8728645
SCSB-85871

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library