Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Number of pages249
ISBN (Electronic)9789004245020
ISBN (Print)9004244980, 9789004244986
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013

Publication series

NameAncient Judaism and Early Christianity
Volume84
ISSN (Print)1871-6636

Keywords

  • Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
  • Simeon, the Just -- In rabbinical literature.
  • Electronic books

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