Exploring Mishnah's world(s) : social scientific approaches /: social scientific approaches. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simcha Fishbane, Calvin Goldscheider, Jack N. Lightstone.
• Authors: Fishbane, Simcha; Goldscheider, Calvin; Lightstone, Jack N
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities in the Social Scientific Study of the Evidence of the Mishnah Chapter 2: Dignity or Debasement: The Destitute in the World of Mishnah Chapter 3:'The Land of Israel is Holier than all Lands:' Diaspora in Mishnah's Cosmos – The Message Chapter 4: Marginal Person and/or Marginal Situation: The Convert in Mishnah Chapter 5: Religious Authority in the Mishnah: Social Science Perspectives on the Emerging Role of Scholars Chapter 6: Family Structure, Kinship, and Life Course Transitions: Social Science Explorations of the Mishnah Chapter 7: Study as a Socially Formative Activity: The Case of Mishnah Study in the Early Rabbinic Group Chapter 8: When Tosefta was Read in Service of Mishnah-Study: What Pervasive Literary-Rhetorical Traits of Toseftan Materials Divulge about the Evolution of Early Rabbinic Group Identity on the Heels of Mishnah's Promulgation Chapter 9: Studying Mishnah 'Talmudic-ly': What the basic literary-rhetorical features of the Talmuds' legal compositions and composite 'essays' tell us about Mishnah study as an identity-informing activity within rabbinic groups at the end of Late Antiquity.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 296.12306; Religion; Judaism and culture; Religion and sociology; Social history; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; History -- Social History; Religion & beliefs; Social & cultural history; Social Science -- Jewish Studies; Judaism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030535711
• Related ISBNs: 9783030535704
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