Chapter 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World

Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Reed, Annette Yoshiko

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“…62 Natalie Dohrmann offers "that rabbinic literature represents a break from Jewish precedent precisely in its legality and that this in turn may tell us something about Romanization." 63 Dohrmann finds that the machinery, rhetoric, and ideology of Roman law inspired the production of a competing Jewish law, mutatis mutandis, among the rabbis. Prior to this point, in the Second Temple period, references to the law describe not so much injunctions associated with mechanisms of legislation and enforcement as "symbolic markers of Jewish identity."…”

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Covenant and Community in Early Rabbinic Literature

Novick

2024

H. Theolo. Review

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This article concerns the role of covenant in early rabbinic literature in relation to biblical and especially Second Temple-era predecessors. The first part establishes that the Qumran sectarians and earlier circles were drawn to the concept of covenant because it represented, especially through the mechanism of covenant renewal, a powerful tool for defining and supporting group identity. The second part shows that for the rabbis, the importance of covenant lay chiefly, instead, in its capacity to conceptualize the notion of Israel as a collective body defined by corporate responsibility. The third part suggests that this novel deployment of covenant arose in part to counter the individuating force of halakah as law, another innovation of the rabbis.

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Covenant and Community in Early Rabbinic Literature

Novick

2024

H. Theolo. Review

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“…In committing to law, the rabbis are defining themselves and buildingt heir Judaism on and through am atrix of elements collected from and filtered through the Roman world.¹⁷ Granting the homologyb etween rabbinic lawand Rome'snomic sensibility, it is worth underscoring the manifest disanalogies. As legal system, halakhah is of course severelytruncated-asovereign, jurisdiction, courts,enforcement,evensubjects, are ghost limbs; dominion is onlyafantasy.¹⁸  Dohrmann 2013.  Hezser 2007C f. Appelbaum 2010:217-22.…”

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“…This case below,i deally, will contributet ot he accumulatedk nowledge of how ap olyethnice mpire might be imagined as multiplyR oman;h ow Romanization is am ajor factor for even the most inward-lookingp opulations; and how state power mayi mpact cultural modalities and media at the margins.  Dohrmann 2013;H ezser 1998H ezser .  Whittaker 1997Hanson 1997;Lapin 2012: 67-69.…”

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Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

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Rüpke²

2015

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Late Antique Christian Law in the Eastern Roman Empire

Monnickendam

2018

Studies in Late Antiquity

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To date, early Christian sources have drawn the scholarly attention of theologians, scholars of biblical commentary, and historians, but not of legal historians, presumably because such sources do not offer sufficiently substantial material for legal historical research. Nevertheless, a few studies have blended legal history and late antique Christianity, and an analysis of these studies shows they are based on a “centralist,” or “formalist–positivist,” conceptualization of law. In this paper I review the scholarship of legal traditions in the eastern Roman Empire— namely, Roman law and Greek legal traditions, the halakha in rabbinic literature, and the halakhic traditions in Qumranic literature and in the New Testament—and contextualize it within developments in legal theory and legal sociology and anthropology (that is, the rise of legal pluralism). This review shows that developments in legal theory, in legal sociology and anthropology, and in legal history of the late antique world are producing new paradigms and models in the study of late antique legal history. These new models, together with new methods in reading early Christian non-legal texts of the eastern Roman Empire, can be utilized in the study of early Christianity, thereby opening gateways to the study of its legal traditions and revealing independent legal traditions that have remained hidden to date.

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Chapter 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World

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Covenant and Community in Early Rabbinic Literature

Covenant and Community in Early Rabbinic Literature

Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion

Late Antique Christian Law in the Eastern Roman Empire

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