Simeon the Righteous in rabbinic literature : a legend reinvented /

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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Main Author: Tropper, Amram D.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 84.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

Simeon, > the Just > In rabbinical literature.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud

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Call Number: BM496.9.S56 T76 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • The Rabbinic Traditions
  • Simeon the Righteous, the Great Assembly of Avot and the Rabbinization of Early Second Temple Judaism
  • Simeon the Righteous and the Origins of the World's Three Pillars
  • Simeon the Righteous and the Narcissistic Nazirite
  • Simeon the Righteous and Alexander the Great
  • Simeon the Righteous and the Temple of Onias
  • Simeon the Righteous in Second Temple Chronology
  • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliogaphy
  • Indexes.