ISBN:
9789047416388
,
9789004145139
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2005
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Series Statement:
The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 23
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation : Turning Points and Focal Points
Keywords:
Judaism History Talmudic period, 10-425
;
Judaism Talmudic period
Abstract:
This book answers the following question for Judaism: among all the things that happened in antiquity, what are the events that, seen from the perspective of the world that would endure, turn out to shape the long future? How did axiological events identify the focal points of the unfolding religious system, Judaism, in its formulation by the rabbinic sages of ancient times? This is the system that originated, in its own telling, with God's teaching to Moses at Sinai in the Torah, in written and traditional form. Of all that happened to the Jews in the millennium from the formation of the Pentateuch ("Moses") to the end of the formative age ("Muhammad"), the particular Judaism that emerged as normative responded to only a select few and did so within a logic all its own. Here we identify those definitive events of danger and opportunity - crisis - and the focal points that they highlighted
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047416388
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