ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
The Jewish Library in Late Antiquity: Forgotten Texts and Non-Rabbinic Jews
In the study of ancient Judaism, a debate has been raging over the place of the rabbinic movement in late antique Jewish society. On the one hand, there is the extensive body of rabbinic literature, which has much to say about the rabbis’ own world, and relatively little to say about non-rabbinic Jews, thus creating the impression that the rabbis were the only significant social factor in late antique Jewish society. On the other hand, there is an impressive, and constantly growing, body of archaeological evidence – and especially the synagogues of late antique Palestine and their elaborate mosaics – which seems to imply that the rabbis had relatively little impact on the religious and…
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