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This book examines the nature and sources of the unique authority accorded in Judaism to the Sages of the first five centuries AD. These teachers-often referred to reverentially as Chazal, a Hebrew acronym for "our Sages of blessed memory"--Occupy a central and unrivalled position in tradi...

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Main Author: Berger, Michael S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Talmud > Evidences, authority, etc.
Talmud > Inspiration.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish > History.
Talmud > Preuves, autorité, etc.
Bible. > Ancien Testament > Critique, interprétation, etc. juives > Histoire.
Bible. > Old Testament
Talmud
Tannaim.
Amoraim.
Rabbis > Office.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Tradition (Judaism)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The domains of divine revelation and rabbinic activity and their relationship
  • Institutional authority of the Talmudic sages
  • "The judge in charge at the time": rabbinic authority as divine command
  • The sages as the Sanhedrin
  • Ordination: standing in the sandals of Moses
  • Personal qualities of the Talmudic sages
  • The rabbis as experts
  • The divinely guided sages
  • Rabbinic authority as authority transformed
  • The authority of publicly accepted practice
  • The authority of texts
  • Rethinking authority: interpretive communities and forms of life.

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