Simeon the Righteous in rabbinic literature : a legend reinvented /
In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented , Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
84.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.
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Call Number: BM496.9.S56 T76 2013
| Summary: | In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented , Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively new critical approach towards rabbinic literature with which he explores the formation history of the traditions. With the help of this approach, Tropper seeks to uncover the literary and cultural matrices, both rabbinic and Graeco-Roman, which supplied the raw materials and literary inspiration to the rabbinic authors and editors of the traditions. Tropper's analysis reveals that in reinventing the legend of Simeon the Righteous, the rabbis constructed the Second Temple past in the image of their own present. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 249 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004245020 |
| ISSN: | 1871-6636 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |