RT Article
T1 The Rabbinic Movement from Pharisees to Provincial Jurists
JF Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
VO 55
IS 1
SP 1
OP 43
A1 Fursṭenberg, Yaʾir
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1876724072
AB In this article I argue that the rabbinic movement reinvented itself during the second century by expanding the boundaries of Jewish law to include all spheres of private law, and thereby claiming juristic expertise in these matters. A variety of sources from the Second Temple period indicate that Jewish law at this stage included primarily ritual laws, while private law was not considered unique to the Jewish way of life and was not treated by scholars of Torah until the second century CE. This far-reaching change resonates with other concurrent developments in provincial legal culture, primarily the emergence of the local nomikoi (legal experts) and legal profession during this period and the dissemination of legal knowledge in the Roman East. The provincial situation served to reshape the rabbinic movement in the guise of the local jurists, and ultimately to establish their political and social standing.
K1 Mishnah
K1 Courts
K1 Second Temple
K1 Roman Law
K1 Roman Empire
K1 Jewish Law
K1 jurists
DO 10.1163/15700631-bja10070