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The Pluralistic Halakhah: Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
311017636X, 9783110176360
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
151 MB (158328705 bytes)
Series
Studia Judaica
Pages
442\440
Time added
2014-04-03 19:43:27

Description

This study examines by a meticulous analysis of abundant rabbinic citations the pluralism of the Halakhah in the pre-70 period which stands in contrast to the fixed Halakhah of later periods. The Temple's destruction provoked, for political motives, the initiation of this significant shift, which protracted itself, in developmental stages, for a longer period. The transition from the Tannaitic to the Amoraic era was a consequential turning point on the extended path from flexibility to rigidity in Jewish law.

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