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Exploring Mishnah's World(s): Social Scientific Approaches

By Jack N. Lightstone , Calvin Goldscheider , Simcha Fishbane

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
3030535703, 9783030535704
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3011250 bytes)
Pages
345\361
Topic
Literature
Time added
2020-11-12 17:17:02

Description

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.

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