The Rhetoric of Innovation: Self-Conscious Legal Change in Rabbinic Literature

ISBN-13: 9780761831662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 406 str.

Aaron D. Panken

Opis

Through critical examination of more than 1,000 occurrences of terms depicting legal innovation, this study maps the contours of legal change reported during the rabbinic period. The Rhetoric of Innovation examines temporal clusters of statements and actions attributed to authority figures in the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods, also reviewing the geographic distribution of these words and their divergent usages in documents edited in Roman Palestine and Babylonia.