The Commerce of the Sacred

In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabb...

In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabb...

What Were the Early Rabbis?

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of M...

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of M...

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and ma...

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and ma...

Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic...

in the land of Israel; (4) Late Antique Talmudic Rabbinism, primarily inn Babylonia, down to the ...

Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbi...

These essays represent a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion and, especially, Jud...