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Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis
Aharon Shemesh
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Hardback. A study of the legal material found in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). It covers the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. Series: Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
"Halakhah in the Making" offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-year gap in knowledge, allowing work to ... Read more
"Halakhah in the Making" offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-year gap in knowledge, allowing work to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Series
Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520259102
SKU
V9780520259102
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About Aharon Shemesh
Aharon Shemesh teaches in the Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University. He has published widely on the development of Jewish law in antiquity. This book is based on the series of talks he delivered for the Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis
"Illuminating." Journal Of Jewish Studies "A very welcome and valuable contribution from an accomplished scholar who is superbly competent in both bodies of legal literature." Journal For The Study Of Judaism