The classical Rabbinic tradition (legal, discursive, and exegetical) claims to be Oral Torah, transmitted by word of mouth in an unbroken chain deriving its authority ultimately from diving revelation to Moses at Sinai. Since the third century C.E., however, this tradition has been embodied in written texts. Through judicious deployment and analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee is able to show that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes.
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"This book is must reading for anyone interested in rabbinic literature, the history of ancient Judaism, and the role of orality in traditional societies and cultures."-- Religious Studies Review
"The first word that comes to mind in reviewing Torah in the Mouth is elegant. It distills over twenty years of Martin S. Jaffee's innovative research into a single, readable whole, a modest 159 pages for the core text. All scholars or Rabbinic studies will want, and probably need, to read this book; so will many students of Second Temple Jerusalem The insights of this book will probably interest New Testament scholars too, as well as those concerned with literacy and orality in cultures of discipleship, especially in late antiquity."- The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"The first word that comes to mind in reviewing Torah in the Mouth is elegant. It distills over twenty years of Martin S. Jaffee's innovative research into a single, readable whole, a modest 159 pages for the core text. All scholars or Rabbinic studies will want, and probably need, to read this book; so will many students of Second Temple Jerusalem The insights of this book will probably interest New Testament scholars too, as well as those concerned with literacy and orality in cultures of discipleship, especially in late antiquity."- The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Martin S. Jaffee is at University of Washington.
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priestly squads, rabbinic literary tradition, submerged tomb, divrei soferim, random snack, compilation ascribed, written recensions, many halakhot, rabbinic oral tradition, halakhic tradition, halakhic norms, term halakhah, rabbinic compilations, repeated tradition, rabbinic torah, scribal teachings, scriptural collection, large pyre, rabbinic movement, corpse matter, scribal communities, written preservation, rabbinic community, scribal skills, early rabbinic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Temple, Rabbi Yohanan, Rabbi Yehudah, Rabbi Aqiva, Rabbi Yose, Smooth Things, Rabban Yohanan, Rabbi Eliezer, Torah of Moses, High Priest, Rabban Gamaliel, Blessed Holy One, Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehoshua, Temple Mount, Galilean Amoraic, Mount of Olives, Mosaic Torah, Alexander Jannaeus, Palestinian Jewish, Rabbi Yudan, Yom Kippur, Land of Israel, Yannai the King, Rabbi Tarfon New!
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