Milgram From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah

Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Social Contexts
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-16-154421-7
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 164, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

In this study, Jonathan S. Milgram demonstrates that the transformation of inheritance law from the biblical to the tannaitic period is best explained against the backdrop of the legal and social contexts in which the tannaitic laws were formulated. Employing text and source critical methods, he argues that, in the absence of the hermeneutic underpinnings for tannaitic innovations, the laws were not the result of the rabbinic imagination and its penchant for inventive interpretation of Scripture. Turning to the rich repositories in biblical, ancient near eastern, Second Temple, Greek, Elephantine, Judean desert, and Roman sources, the author searches for conceptual parallels and antecedents as well as formulae and terminology adopted and adapted by the tannaim. Since the tannaitic traditions reflect the social and economic contexts of the tannaitic period - the nuclear family on privatized landholdings in urban centers - the author also considers the degree to which tannaitic inheritance laws may have emerged out of these contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milgram, Jonathan S.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Rabbinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Preface;10
4;Acknowledgements;16
5;Abbreviations, Terminology, and Transliteration;20
5.1;Abbreviations;20
5.2;Primary Sources;20
5.3;Additional Primary Sources;21
5.4;Terminology;21
5.5;Transliteration;22
6;Introduction;24
6.1;Tannaitic Laws and not Tannaitic Law : The Philological-Historical Approach and the Legal Legacy of the Tannaim;27
6.2;Tannaitic Law(s) and Comparative Ancient Law : Context, Influence, and Internal Development;29
6.3;The Legal Legacy of the Tannaim: Ancient Parallels and Antecedents;34
6.4;On the Relationship of Ancient Laws to Ancient Societies;40
6.5;On the Relationship of Inheritance Laws to Presumed Social and Economic Settings in the Bible and Tannaitic Literature;47
6.6;On the Textual and Archeological Evidence for the Presumed Family Structure and Landholding Patterns in the Bible and Tannaitic Literature;50
6.7;Tannaitic Society and Tannaitic Inheritance Law: Cause and Effect?;54
6.8;The Present Study;56
7;Chapter 1: Gifting and Inheriting in Tannaitic Law and in the Ancient World;62
7.1;Introduction;62
7.2;Gifting and Inheriting in Tannaitic Law;66
7.3;A Philological-Historical Analysis of mBB 8:5;71
7.4;Gifting and Inheriting in the Bible;75
7.5;The Universality of Unilateral Inheriting and Universal Succession;78
7.6;Gifting in the Ancient World;81
7.7;Terminology and Implementation of Gifting and Inheriting;83
7.8;Conclusions;87
8;Chapter 2: Firstborn Inheritance in Tannaitic Law and in the Ancient World;90
8.1;Introduction;90
8.2;The Tannaitic Sources;93
8.3;The Firstborn in the Bible;94
8.4;The Ancient Near East;98
8.5;Ancient Greece and Rome;101
8.6;Conclusions;104
9;Chapter 3: Testate Succession in Tannaitic Law and in the Ancient World;106
9.1;Introduction;106
9.2;Testate Succession in Tannaitic Law;108
9.3;Testate Succession in the Bible;112
9.4;Job, Judith, Tobit, and the Elephantine Papyri;114
9.5;Testate Succession in the Ancient Near East and in Ancient Greece;117
9.6;Roman Law and Rabbi Yo?anan Ben Beroka;121
9.7;Yaron on Rabbi Yo?anan Ben Beroka;124
9.8;Conclusions;126
10;Chapter 4: Inheritance by Daughters in Tannaitic Law and in the Ancient World;128
10.1;Introduction;128
10.2;Inheritance by Daughters in Tannaitic Law;133
10.3;Philo and the Tannaitic Traditions;141
10.4;Direct Inheritance by Daughters in the Bible;143
10.5;Inheritance by Daughters in the Ancient Near East;147
10.6;The Elephantine and Judean Desert Papyri;150
10.7;Greece and Rome;151
10.8;Conclusions;153
11;Chapter 5: Inheritance by Wives in Tannaitic Law and in the Ancient World;156
11.1;Introduction;156
11.2;Inheritance by Wives in Tannaitic Law;158
11.3;Inheritance by Wives in the Bible;162
11.4;Inheritance by Wives in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome;164
11.5;Conclusions;166
12;Conclusions: How Jewish is Jewish Inheritance Law?;168
13;Appendix: Gifts in Contemplation of Death in Tannaitic Law and Ancient Parallels;170
13.1;Introduction;170
13.2;The Tannaitic Mattenat Bari;171
13.3;The Tannaitic Mattenat Shakhev Mera;173
13.4;Ancient Parallels to the Mattenat Bari and Mattenat Shakhev Mera;176
13.5;A Mattenat Bari From the Judean Desert?;179
13.6;The Formula of the Tannaitic Mattenat Bari and Gifting Formulae at Elephantine;181
13.7;Yaron on the Tannaitic Diath?k?;183
14;Bibliography;190
15;Index of Foreign Terms;212
16;Index of Contemporary Authors;214
17;Index of Sources;216
17.1;Hebrew Bible;216
17.2;Second Temple Literature;217
17.3;New Testament;217
17.4;Ancient Translations;217
17.5;Ancient Near Eastern Sources;218
17.6;Greek Sources;218
17.7;Roman Sources;219
17.8;Mishnah (m);219
17.9;Tosefta (t);220
17.10;Halakhic Midrash;221
17.11;Palestinian Talmud (p);221
17.12;Babylonian Talmud (Bavli);221
17.13;Talmudic Commentaries;222
17.14;Judean Desert Papyri;222
17.15;Elephantine Papyri;222
18;Index of Subjects;223

Über Autor(innen)

Milgram, Jonathan S.
Born 1971; 1995 BA, Columbia University; 1995 BA, The Jewish Theological Seminary; 1997 MA, Yeshiva University; 2002 Rabbinic Ordination, Yeshiva University; 2007 PhD, Bar Ilan University; formerly Sam and Vivienne Cohen Lecturer in Jewish Studies, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK) and Fellow, London School of Jewish Studies; currently Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary.