Classic Essays in Early Rabbinic Culture and History

Introduction

1. Leopold Zunz, "Etwas uber die rabbinische Litteratur" in 1818 (republished in Gesammelte Schriften, 1875-76), pp. 1-31. Translated by James Redfield

2. Heinrich Grätz (1817-1891) "Hagadische Elemente bei den Kirchenvatern" in Monatsschrift fur geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, Vol. 3, No. 8 (1854), pp. 311-19. Translated by James Redfield

3. Victor Aptowitzer, "Observations on the Criminal Law of the Jews" in Jewish Quarterly Review XV (1924), pp. 55-118

4. Adolf Büchler "The Levitical Impurity of the Gentile in Palestine before the year 70" in Jewish Quarterly Review XVII (n.s.) (1926), pp. 1-81

5. Gedaliah Alon, "Those appointed for Money" in Zion 12 (1947) 101-35; translated and reprinted in Jews, Judaism and the Classical World by Israel Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977), pp. 374-435

6. Israel Levy, "L’Origine Davidique de Hillel." REJ 31 (1895), pp. 202-211. Translated by Erin Brust

7. Wilhelm Bacher, "Das altjüdische Schulwesen" in Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur. 6 (1903), pp. 48-81. Translated by Eva Kiesele

8. Urbach, E.E., "The Derashah as the Basis for the Halakhah and the Problem of the Soferim," in Tarbiz 27 (1958), pp. 168-82 (Hebrew). Translated by Christine Hayes

9. David Zvi Hoffman, pp 1-12 of "Le-Heqer Midreshei ha-Tanna’im," in Mesilot le-Torat ha-Tanna’im (Tel Aviv: M. Drisner, 1928). Translation by A. S. Rabinowitz of "Zur Einleitung in die halachischen Midraschim," (Berlin, 1888). Translated by James Redfield

10. Solomon Zeitlin, "The Pharisees: A Historical Study." The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Oct., 1961), pp. 97-129

11. Saul Lieberman, "The Martyrs of Caesarea" in Annuaire de L’Institut de Philologie et D’Histoire Orientales et Slaves. Vol. 7 (1944), pp. 395-446

12. David Daube (1909-1999) "Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation and Hellenistic Rhetoric" in Hebrew Union College Annual, 22 (1949), pp. 239-264

13. Elias Bickerman, "La chaîne de la tradition pharisienne" Revue biblique, (1952) Vol. 59 1 4, pp. 44-54; later in English in Studies in Jewish and Christian History　II (1980), pp. 256-269

14. Morton Smith (1915-1991) "Palestinian Judaism in the First Century," in M. Davis, Israel, Its Role in Civilization (1956), pp. 67-81

15. Erwin R. Goodenough (1893-1965) "The Rabbis and Jewish Art in the Greco-Roman Period."　Hebrew Union College Annual　32 (1961), pp. 269-279

16. Morton Smith, (1915-1991) "Goodenough’s Jewish Symbols in Retrospect" in JBL 86 (1967), pp. 53-68

17. Henry Fischel, "Story and History:　Observations on Greco-Roman rhetoric and Pharisaism" in American Oriental Society, Middle West Branch, Semi-Centennial Volume　(1969), pp. 59-88

18. Alexander Kohut,"Die talmudisch-midraschische Adamssage in ihrer Ruckbeziehung auf die persische Yima und Meshiasage" in ZDMG (1871), pp. 59-94. Translated by Eva Kiesele

Biography

Christine Hayes is Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, Yale University, USA, and author of several books in biblical and rabbinic studies, including Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (2002) and What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (2015).

"This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this publication." -- www.worldtrade.com, Spotlight 029, August 2018