TY - BOOK
T1 - Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature
T2 - A Legend Reinvented
AU - Tropper, Amram D.
N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented , Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively new critical approach towards rabbinic literature with which he explores the formation history of the traditions. With the help of this approach, Tropper seeks to uncover the literary and cultural matrices, both rabbinic and Graeco-Roman, which supplied the raw materials and literary inspiration to the rabbinic authors and editors of the traditions. Tropper’s analysis reveals that in reinventing the legend of Simeon the Righteous, the rabbis constructed the Second Temple past in the image of their own present.
AB - In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented , Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times. Tropper not only interprets these traditions from a literary perspective but also deploys a relatively new critical approach towards rabbinic literature with which he explores the formation history of the traditions. With the help of this approach, Tropper seeks to uncover the literary and cultural matrices, both rabbinic and Graeco-Roman, which supplied the raw materials and literary inspiration to the rabbinic authors and editors of the traditions. Tropper’s analysis reveals that in reinventing the legend of Simeon the Righteous, the rabbis constructed the Second Temple past in the image of their own present.
KW - Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
KW - Simeon, the Just -- In rabbinical literature.
KW - Electronic books
U2 - 10.1163/9789004245020
DO - 10.1163/9789004245020
M3 - Book
SN - 9004244980
SN - 9789004244986
T3 - Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
BT - Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -