Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature

A Legend Reinvented
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24498-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1180 g

Reihe: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented, Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively new critical approach towards rabbinic literature with which he explores the formation history of the traditions. With the help of this approach, Tropper seeks to uncover the literary and cultural matrices, both rabbinic and Graeco-Roman, which supplied the raw materials and literary inspiration to the rabbinic authors and editors of the traditions. Tropper’s analysis reveals that in reinventing the legend of Simeon the Righteous, the rabbis constructed the Second Temple past in the image of their own present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tropper, Amram

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: The Rabbinic Traditions
2: Simeon the Righteous, the Great Assembly of Avot and the Rabbinization of Early Second Temple Judaism
3: Simeon the Righteous and the Origins of the World’s Three Pillars
4: Simeon the Righteous and the Narcissistic Nazirite
5: Simeon the Righteous and Alexander the Great
6: Simeon the Righteous and the Temple of Onias
7: Simeon the Righteous in Second Temple Chronology
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Amram Tropper, Ph.D. (2002), Oxford University, is Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Ben Gurion University. His previous publications include Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography (Oxford, 2004) and Like Clay in the Hands of the Potter (Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2011).