Grossberg Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-16-155334-9
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 168, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

Between the first and sixth centuries C.E., a group of sages that scholars refer to as the rabbinic community systematized their ideas about Judaism in works such as the Mishnah and the Talmud. David M. Grossberg offers a new approach to thinking about this community's formation. Rather than seeking an occasion of origin, he examines the gradual development of the idea of an authorized rabbinic collective. The classical rabbinic texts imagine a diverse setting of Sadducees, Pharisees, sinners, and sectarians interacting in complex and changing ways with pious sages, teachers, and judges. Yet this representation aligns only vaguely with the social reality in which these ancient sages actually lived and operated. The author contends that these texts' primary aim was not to describe real rabbinic opponents but to create and enforce boundaries between piety and impiety and between legitimate and illegitimate teachings. In this way, the emerging rabbinic movement set standards of inclusion and exclusion in the community of righteous Israel and established the bounds of the community aspiring to lead them, the rabbinic community itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossberg, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Rabbinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Contents;8
3;Acknowledgements;10
4;Introduction: The Formation of the Rabbinic Community;12
4.1;I. Yavneh and the Myth of Origins;15
4.2;II. The Sage Idea and the Development of a Collective;19
4.3;III. Heresy and the Formation of Community;25
4.4;IV. A Note on Style and Method;30
5;Chapter 1: The Meaning and End of Heresy in Rabbinic Literature;38
5.1;I. Heresy in Rabbinic Literature?;39
5.2;II. Heresy as a Category;43
5.3;III. Heresy as hairesis;48
5.4;IV. Heresy as Heresiological Discourse;52
5.5;V. Heresy and Boundary Rhetoric in the Ancient World;59
6;Chapter 2: Varieties of Minim in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Period;61
6.1;I. Heresy and Minut;62
6.2;II. Minim as Insiders in the Late Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Periods;68
6.3;III. Minim as Hybrids in the Early Christian Period;83
6.4;IV. Minim as Outsiders in the Late Rabbinic Period;99
7;Chapter 3: Co-opting the Sinners of Israel;103
7.1;I. The Sinners of Israel and the Sinners of the Nations of the World;103
7.2;II. Sinners, Pomegranates, and Good Deeds;109
7.3;III. An Israelite Who Sins;117
7.4;IV. All Israel Have a Portion in the World to Come;121
8;Chapter 4: Meshummadim Who Provoke the Rabbis;127
8.1;I. Meshummadim, Apostates, and “The Time of Persecutions”;128
8.2;II. Flagrant Meshummadim;138
8.3;III. Meshummadim From Appetite and To Provoke;143
8.4;IV. Provoking the Torah and the Rabbis;150
9;Chapter 5: Apiqorsim Who Disrespect the Rabbis;155
9.1;I. Epicureans, Sadducees, and Divine Providence;156
9.2;II. Disrespecting the Rabbis;163
9.3;III. Apiqorsim and Irreverence;167
9.4;IV. Apiqorsim, minim, and Dangerous Verses;169
9.5;V. Know How to Avoid an Apiqoros;173
10;Chapter 6: Two Powers and the Ascent of Rabbi Elisha;178
10.1;I. Elisha ben Abuyah as an Absolute Other;179
10.2;II. Elisha ben Abuyah as a Failed Rabbi;182
10.3;III. Elisha’s Ascent and Divine Multiplicity;187
10.4;IV. Metatron’s Transgression and Heavenly Proscriptions;196
10.5;V. Elisha’s Transgression and the Heavenly Voice;198
11;Chapter 7: The Failed Rabbi and Those Who Cause the Public to Sin;204
11.1;I. The Mechanics of Atonement in Rabbinic Tradition;205
11.2;II. Gehazi as a Failed Rabbi;211
11.3;III. The Failed Rabbi in the Babylonian Talmud;217
12;Conclusion: Boundary Rhetoric, Community Formation, and Rabbinic Judaism;228
13;Appendix: Synoptic Presentation of b. Hagigah 15a and 3 Enoch for Chapter Six;236
14;Bibliography;238
15;Index of Primary Sources;260
15.1;I. Hebrew Bible;260
15.2;II. Second Temple Period Jewish Literature;261
15.3;III. New Testament;262
15.4;IV. Rabbinic Literature;262
15.4.1;Mishnah;263
15.4.2;Tannaitic Midrash;264
15.4.3;Palestinian Talmud;265
15.4.4;Classical Palestinian Midrash;266
15.4.5;Later Midrash;269
15.5;V. Greco-Roman and Early Christian Literature;270
15.6;VI. Hekhalot and Medieval Jewish Literature;270
16;Index of Modern Authors;272
17;Index of Subjects;277

Über Autor(innen)

Grossberg, David M.
Born 1965; PhD from Princeton University; currently Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, Ithaca.