Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

Ulmer, Rivka, editor

Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006

Series Information

Studies in Judaism

Description: Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era.

Subjects: Bible, Mishnah, Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, Literature

Review by Joshua Schwartz
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Published 6/28/2008
Citation: Joshua Schwartz, review of Rivka Ulmer, ed., Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism, Review of Biblical Literature
[http://www.bookreviews.org] (2008).