What is good, and what God demands : normative structures in Tannaitic literature /

The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of tannaitic normativity....

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Main Author: Novick, Tzvi.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 144.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.

Subjects:

Akiba ben Joseph, > ca. 50-ca. 132.

Ishmael ben Elisha, > 2nd cent.

Bible. > O.T. > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.