The Significance of Yavneh: Pharisees, Rabbis, and the End of Jewish Sectarianism

After the destruction of the second temple in 70 C.E. the rabbis gathered in Yavneh and launched the process which yielded the Mishnah approximately one hundred years later. Most modern scholars see these rabbis as Pharisees triumphant who define "orthodoxy," expel Christians and other her...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Shaye J. D. 1948- (Autor)
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Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: College 1984
En: Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Año: 1984, Volumen: 55, Páginas: 27-53
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Judaísmo primitivo / Búsqueda por el Jesús histórico
Clasificaciones IxTheo:BH Judaísmo
Otras palabras clave:B Rabinismo
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Sumario:After the destruction of the second temple in 70 C.E. the rabbis gathered in Yavneh and launched the process which yielded the Mishnah approximately one hundred years later. Most modern scholars see these rabbis as Pharisees triumphant who define "orthodoxy," expel Christians and other heretics, and purge the canon of "dangerous" books. The evidence for this reconstruction is inadequate. In all likelihood most of the rabbis were Pharisees, but there is no indication that the rabbis of the Yavnean period were motivated by a Pharisaic self-consciousness (contrast the Babylonian Talmud and the medieval polemics against the Karaites) or were dominated by an exclusivistic ethic. In contrast the major goal of the Yavnean rabbis seems to have been not the expulsion of those with whom they disagreed but the cessation of sectarianism and the creation of a society which tolerated, even encouraged, vigorous debate among members of the fold. The Mishnah is the first work of Jewish antiquity which ascribes conflicting legal opinions to named individuals who, in spite of their disagreements, belong to the same fraternity. This mutual tolerance is the enduring legacy of Yavneh.
ISSN:0360-9049
Obras secundarias:In: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion