Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
THE THREAT OF IDOLATRY: PHILO AND JOSEPHUS Idolatry is treated in the Talmudic literature as if it were irrelevant after the des ...
[nationwide] holidays (as distinct from the Land of Israel’s three day ban).” Safrai, among others, is only willing to attribute ...
INTRODUCTION This chapter locates the analysis of religious rivalry within a broader ana- lytical framework. It views religious ...
actors interacted as fellow citizens. But this is already an overly simple account of the proposition. Each of these groups inha ...
own community does not map as territory for co-participation. At other times, the conflict arises out of resentment over the non ...
that is sometimes problematic (Mack 1996, 247–49; Lightstone 1997). On one side of the circle is literary evidence with severe l ...
short time span, or members of the community disagree. All of these expla- nations are possible and may account for some apparen ...
hensible. Thus, I offer the theoretical and conceptual propositions outlined at the beginning of this chapter and the accompanyi ...
revise the Mishnah’s rulings by introducing new distinctions and differen- tiations without the limitations imposed by Mishnah’s ...
A document’s rhetorical or formal traits affect the level of social differ- entiation that it will introduce. In moving from on ...
above and beyond explicit biblical law. The Toseftashares this tendency, to a significantly lesser degree, again, because of its ...
tiles (i.e., idolaters). Yet the issue is not social separation in an absolute sense, that is, over the entire spectrum of arena ...
considers the location of the spatial boundary in relation to the celebration of a Gentile holy day. When? What? Who? Where? The ...
R. they do not claim repayment from him [that is, the Gentile, on the days prior to his holy day]. S. And that which is not secu ...
V. And even though the worker [may have] completed [working with] his tools prior to [commencement of] his [the Gentile’s] holy ...
In the above-listed binary distinctions, introduced by the Toseftato complement and to supplement the Mishnah’s agenda, it is cl ...
heave offering to all the produce of the biblical land of Israel. Obviously, by the beginning of the third century CE, such a co ...
Again, the Tosefta,with its penchant for social differentiation, provides an apt example at t. Avodah Zarah3:1–3, which compleme ...
T.3:3 V. An Israelite woman does not provide wet nursing for the child of a Gentile woman (úéøáð), W. because she nurtures someo ...
this chapter. A great deal of inter-group and intra-group conflict can be attributed to the high probability that different grou ...
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