Heresiology in the Third-Century Mishnah: Arguments for Rabbinic Legal Authority and the Complications of a Simple Concept*
When members of the early rabbinic group created the Jewish legal text known as the Mishnah in the late second or early third century, the concept of heresy was relatively common in the wider cultural discourse of the Roman world. Christian apologists, among others, frequently employed the Greek ter...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2015, Volume: 108, Issue: 4, Pages: 508-529 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mishnah
/ Heresy
/ Rabbinic Judaism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
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| Summary: | When members of the early rabbinic group created the Jewish legal text known as the Mishnah in the late second or early third century, the concept of heresy was relatively common in the wider cultural discourse of the Roman world. Christian apologists, among others, frequently employed the Greek term hairesis (heresy/heretic, originally meaning school of thought/adherent) as part of their larger projects of drawing boundaries, defining identities, and making an argument for the authority of their own ideas and practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S001781601500036X |