The opponents of the *Karaites. From the 10th Century, Rabbanite was used to describe a *Jew who accepted the authority of the *Oral...

RABBINIC JUDAISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY. In its formative period, 70–640 CE, rabbinic Judaism forged a synthesis between two antithetical phenomena in the religion of Israel: first, the messianic movement, with its stress on history's meaning...

The rabbinate as an institution of intellectual, spiritual, and religious leadership developed relatively late in the history of the Jewish people. It is found neither in the Bible nor in other Jewish literature from the biblical period. In Mishnaic...

Rabbinic Judaism or Rabbinism (or in Hebrew "Yahadut Rabanit" - יהדות רבנית) was the continuation of the Pharisees after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. It developed through the second to sixth centuries CE. It is to be...

ALEXEI M. SIVERTSEV, Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism (JSJSup 102; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2005). Pp. viii + 301. euro136. Arguing that a proper appreciation of the role of Jewish households and families is critical for understanding Jewish sectarianism during the second...

Judaism and the Interpretation of Scripture: Introduction to the Rabbinic Midrash. By Jacob Neusner. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2004, 230 pp., $24.95 paper. One of the world's most prolific writers on Rabbinic literature has written yet another book on the subject. In fifteen chapters, Judaism...