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Journal articles on the topic "Rabbinic elitism"

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Hamilton, Michelle. "En la Tierra como en el Cielo”: Profecía y clase en las obras de Ibn Daud." Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 40, no. 1 (2023): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/ashf.81956.

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Abraham ibn Daud’s Exalted Faith adapts to rabbinic thought and Jewish tradition the Andalusi Aristotelian model that was the framework for understanding God, man, and man’s purpose in the universe. Ibn Daud defines Jewish belief for the perplexed scholar, arguably providing a genealogy and epistemological justification for the scholarly class—based on acquisition of knowledge of the (Aristotelian) universe and culminating in achieving prophethood. The Aristotelian universe presented in the Exalted Faith offers a version of the elitism Stroumsa argues if at the heart of this Jewish and Muslim

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Kosior, Wojciech. "The Angelized Rabbis and the Rabbinized Angels. The Reworked Motif of the Angelic Progeny in the Babylonian Talmud (bShabb 112b)." Verbum Vitae 41, no. 2 (2023): 411–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vv.15570.

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The myth of the fallen angels, as it is known from the intertestamental literature, narrates the story of the angels who break the divine law, marry earthly women, and beget malevolent hybrid progeny. The latter element of this narrative can be found in the Babylonian Talmud, where it is invested with new significance: these are the distinguished rabbis who are the heavenly messengers’ offspring. I start this paper by outlining the traces of the rabbis’ familiarity with the myth of the fallen angels and then move on to an analysis of the tradition about the angelic origins of the sages found i

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Julian, Ungar-Sargon. "Erotic Discipline and Halakhic Mastery: Reconceptualizing the Am Ha'aretz and the Talmid Chacham in Contemporary Discourse." Advanced Educational Research & Reviews 02, no. 01 (2025): 05. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15532363.

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Abstract This article examines the tension between the <em>am ha'aretz</em> (unschooled layman) and the <em>talmid chacham</em> (Torah scholar) through the lens of contemporary scholarship on Jewish sexuality, gender dynamics, and the laws of <em>niddah</em>. Drawing on recent developments in the Orthodox community—particularly the emergence of female halakhic advisors (<em>yoatzot halacha</em>)—this analysis reconsiders traditional paradigms of access to knowledge and bodily discipline. By situating the Talmudic discussions of sexual restraint within broader frameworks of power, k

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Schleicher, Marianne. "Fra bibelske til rabbinske opfattelser af askese: Jødedommens verdensbekræftende praksis." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, no. 64 (March 11, 2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v0i64.23329.

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The purpose of this article is to supplement scholarly positions that define asceticism either as a matter of world renouncement and elitist self-exclusion from the world or as always oriented toward transcendent goals or practices of improvement because these positions run the risk of overlooking moderate kinds of asceticism. Israelite, early Jewish, and early Rabbinic Jewish religion are replete with examples of moderate asceticism where both men and women are encouraged to engage in abstinence and self-training in order – not to improve, but – to preserve a religious tradition. With Steven

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Dalton, Krista. "Teaching for the Tithe: Donor Expectations and the Matrona's Tithe." AJS Review 44, no. 1 (2020): 49–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009419000886.

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This article examines a story in the Jerusalem Talmud depicting a wealthy woman who expects Torah instruction in exchange for her tithes. This textual example is used as a lens through which to view the changing social, religious, and economic relationships of Roman Syria Palaestina, whereby the biblically described institution of tithing to priests expanded to include priestly descendent rabbis. Giving the priestly tithe to a rabbi, while advantageous in a period of rabbinic fundraising, presented a distinct set of challenges as it came to resemble patronage practices associated with Roman el

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Rädecker, Tsila. "Exposed and Concealed Sexuality: Virgin Records in the Eighteenth-Century Ashkenazi Protocols of Amsterdam." European Journal of Jewish Studies 6, no. 2 (2012): 249–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-12341236.

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Abstract This article analyses the documentation of the accidental loss of virginity in the eighteenth-century Ashkenazi Community records of Amsterdam. By revealing the interplay between theology and Jewish Community life, various aspects, such as the economization and the institutionalization of virginity, come to the fore. Furthermore, the virgin records show that conflicting notions of physical and spiritual virginity were decontextualized and used to serve the community’s purposes. In short, documentation of virginity, although based on a rich rabbinic tradition, gives insight into the re

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Belser, Julia Watts. "Opulence and Oblivion: Talmudic Feasting, Famine, and the Social Politics of Disaster." AJS Review 38, no. 1 (2014): 89–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036400941400004x.

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Food and feasting narratives illuminate the social politics of disaster in the Babylonian Talmud's lengthiest account of the destruction of Jerusalem (Bavli Gittin 55b–58a). Key moments in this sugya center around food: the shame of Bar Kamẓa at a feast sparks his eventual betrayal of the Jews, the tale of Marta bat Boethus recounts the starvation of the wealthiest woman in Jerusalem, and Caesar destroys Tur Malka in retaliation for an opulent banquet. This article contextualizes these rabbinic narratives within the social politics of Roman and Sasanian banquet culture, while also parsing the

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Schumann, Andrew. "The Origins and Worldwide Significance of Judaic Hermeneutics." Religions 16, no. 6 (2025): 717. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060717.

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This paper explores the origins and global significance of Judaic hermeneutics as a foundational logical culture, arguing that it constitutes one of the earliest and most sophisticated systems of reasoning in human history. Far beyond a method of religious interpretation, Rabbinic hermeneutics represents a logic in practice: a structured, culturally embedded framework of inference rules (middôt), such as qal wāḥōmer (a fortiori reasoning), that guided legal deliberation and textual exegesis. By comparing Judaic hermeneutic methods with Greco-Roman rhetoric, Indian logic, and Chinese philosophy

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Rock-Singer, Cara. "A Prophetic Guide for a Perplexed World: Louis Finkelstein and the 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion." Religion and American Culture 29, no. 2 (2019): 179–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rac.2019.2.

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ABSTRACTThis article traces negotiations over the epistemic, ethical, and political authority of Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and science in mid-twentieth-century America. Specifically, it examines how the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Dr. Louis Finkelstein, led a diverse group of intellectual elites as they planned and convened the 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life (CSPR). Based on the conference's transcripts, proceedings, and papers, in addition to Finkelstein's writings from the period, this art

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Books on the topic "Rabbinic elitism"

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Belser, Julia Watts. Opulence and Oblivion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.003.0007.

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This chapter analyzes Bavli Gittin’s self-critical assessment of the ethical failings of the rabbis and other Jewish elites. Through tales of feasting in the shadow of catastrophe, Bavli Gittin articulates striking concerns about the collateral costs of opulent wealth, calling attention to the way that extravagant luxury isolates and insulates those who dine at the fanciest tables from the gritty realities of violence and danger. Key moments in Bavli Gittin’s narrative center around food: the shame of Bar Qamtsa at a feast sparks his eventual betrayal of the Jews, the tale of Marta bat Boethus

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Wodziński, Marcin. Leadership. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631260.003.0003.

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This chapter attempts to add yet another perspective to the already extensive scholarship on the tsadikim, which has been based so far mainly on elitist, rabbinical sources of a normative, rather than a descriptive, nature. It asks what simple pilgrims expected to achieve from their visits to a Hasidic court and how they expressed it. By analyzing a mass source of popular petitions brought to one Hasidic leader by thousands of his followers, the chapter arrives at the conclusion that the simple pilgrims expected from the tsadik mainly intervention in the matters of health, income, and family m

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Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. Liverpool University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113294.001.0001.

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This book presents Maimonides against the religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. The book not only analyses the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of the ‘proto-kabbalistic’ Judaism that preceded him. The book shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities. It shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. The book argues that Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success

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Stern, Karen B. Writing on the Wall. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161334.001.0001.

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Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgot

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Book chapters on the topic "Rabbinic elitism"

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Vidas, Moulie. "Conclusion." In The Rise of Talmud. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198915058.003.0012.

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Abstract The development of textual scholarship on rabbinic teachings in the Amoraic period had a transformative effect on rabbinic culture. First, it presented a new understanding of the nature of rabbinic teachings, emphasizing aspects of them that were ignored or denied in the Tannaitic period, and therefore resulted in a new concept of Torah and of the rabbinic project. Second, it introduced new types of commentary, arguments, and reading strategies into rabbinic study culture. Tracing these developments allows us to appreciate the contribution represented by the first Talmud, too often se

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