Holiness in the Rabbinic Period

Updated by: 
Oz Tamir
Research notes: 
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Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Novick, Tzvi
year: 
2018
Full title: 

Holiness in the Rabbinic Period

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Holiness in Jewish Thought
Editor(s): 
Alan L. Mittleman
Place of Publication: 
Oxford
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

The chapter examines the conceptualization and role of holiness in classical rabbinic and para-rabbinic literature. The first part contends that while holiness structured the thought world of sectarians in the late Second Temple period, it figures less importantly for the rabbis themselves, who in an assortment of texts appear self-consciously to disrupt holiness-based hierarchies. They instead assign a structuring role to law. The second part of the chapter surveys the ways in which texts from rabbinic Palestine deploy holiness discourse, and ventures that the rabbis continue to think of holiness as closer to a natural property than to an evaluative shorthand.

URL: 
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796497.003.0003
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796497.001.0001
https://academic.oup.com/book/9630/chapter/156692119
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03/08/2020
Record number: 
106 995