The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self-conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature (Studies in Judaism)

Aaron D. Panken

ISBN 10: 0761831665 / ISBN 13: 9780761831662

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2005

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pp. 406 Indices.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self-conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature (Studies in Judaism)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761831665
• ISBN 13: 9780761831662
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Through critical examination of more than 1,000 occurrences of terms depicting legal innovation, this study maps the contours of legal change reported during the rabbinic period. The Rhetoric of Innovation examines temporal clusters of statements and actions attributed to authority figures in the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods, also reviewing the geographic distribution of these words and their divergent usages in documents edited in Roman Palestine and Babylonia.

About the Author

Aaron D. Panken serves as Dean and Director of the Rabbinical Program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, where he teaches Rabbinic and Second Temple Literature. Ordained at HUC-JIR, he earned his Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University and teaches and speaks widely throughout North America and abroad.