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Hezser, Catherine (2018) 'The Creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and Apophthegmata Patrum as Monuments to the Rabbinic and Monastic Movements in Early Byzantine Times.' Jewish Studies Quarterly, 25 (4). pp. 368-393.

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Abstract

This paper investigates the compilatory processes that led to the creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and the Apophthegmata Patrum in early Byzantine Palestine. These encyclopaedic works are based on individual oral traditions that emerged from teacher-disciple networks of rabbis and monks. A comparison of the scholastic settings, editorial processes, and structural arrangements reveals interesting similarities and differences. It highlights the complexity of the Talmud’s organizing principles that did not allow for later accretions in the same way that the Apophthegmata collections did. The development from oral transmission to written compilations had significant consequences. For the first time, multiple individual traditions that were diverse and contradictory were visible together on one and the same page. The reader of the written compilations is offered a synoptic overview of the accumulated anchorite and rabbinic knowledge of one and a half centuries. The early Byzantine compilers commemorated and (re)create the “classical” rabbinic and monastic movements for their own time and place.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of History, Religions & Philosophies > Department of Religions & Philosophies
ISSN: 09445706
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1628/jsq-2018-0019
Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2018 16:33
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/25579

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