Rabbi Akiva's Youth
Despite its almost universal acceptance, the story of Rabbi Akiba's youthful ignorance is not attested in tannaitic sources. Indeed, analysis of the manuscript traditions of Sifre Deuteronomy §357 allows us to recover a tannaitic dictum that identifies Rabbi Akiba as a student of Torah from chi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2010
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2010, Volume: 100, Issue: 4, Pages: 573-597 |
Further subjects: | B
Sifre Deuteronomy
B Biography B Historical Kernel B Rabbi Akiva |
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