Mishnah and the social formation of the early Rabbinic Guild :
[Book]
a socio-rhetorical approach /
Jack N. Lightstone.
Waterloo, Ont. :
Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion = Corp. canadienne des Sciences religeuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2002.
1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) :
illustrations.
Studies in Christianity and Judaism ;
11
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Focusing on the social meaning of mishnaic rhetoric -- 2. Mishnaic rhetoric -- 3. Tosefta's (dis)simulation of mishnah's rhetoric -- 4. Semahot's remaking of mishnah's rhetoric -- 5. Summary and conclusions: rhetoric and role-mishnah, material evidence and the emergence of the rabbinic guild in late-second-century Galilee -- Appendix: A comparison of Mishnah Gittin 1:1-2:2 and James 2:1-13 from the perspective of greco-roman rhetorical elaboration -- References and selected bibliography -- General index.