RT Article
T1 The Making of the Rabbi-Scholar in Late Ancient Palestine: Torah Study and Its Others in the Yerushalmi
JF Harvard theological review
VO 118
IS 3
SP 526
OP 551
A1 Vidas, Moulie 1983-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1939846005
AB This article identifies a development in rabbinic discourse about Torah study. Whereas early texts contrast study with activities like earning a living, the Palestinian Talmud presents a new debate in which study stands in binary opposition to activities otherwise considered part of the life of Torah, such as good deeds and prayer. This debate shaped the eventually dominant view of the rabbinic sage as primarily, or even exclusively, a scholarly figure. The article shows how this discourse was formulated through adaptation of earlier sources and considers how it may have responded to broader transformations in the sages’ world.
K1 Judaism
K1 Rabbinic Literature
K1 Scholasticism
K1 Talmud Yerushalmi
K1 Torah Study
DO 10.1017/S0017816025100928