Hezser on Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Intellectual Culture

THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION:

Why It Is Necessary to Integrate Rabbinic Scholarship Into the Study of Late Antique Intellectual Culture

Rabbinic scholarship, conducted in Hebrew and Aramaic in the eastern parts of the Roman-Byzantine Empire, is commonly excluded from the study of “classical” intellectual practices based on Greek paideia. A broader integrative approach that acknowledges both similarities and differences between rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholarship enables a more variegated assessment of late antique intellectual life.

See also: Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Bloomsbury, 2024).

By Catherine Hezser
SOAS, University of London
November 2024

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