This fascinating description of the novel rabbinic discourse leads to what is in my view one of the most significant contributions of the book to our understanding of Judaism in Antiquity: The rabbinic termination of separation technologies, so characteristic of pre-rabbinic Judaism.Bold-font emphasis in the original.
Another installment in the AJR forum on Ophir and Rosen-Zvi, Goy, on which more here and here.
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