By Daniel R. Schwartz, Zeev Weiss, Ruth A. Clements
The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which placed an finish to sacrificial worship in Israel, is generally assumed to represent a huge caesura in Jewish background. yet how very important used to be it? What quite replaced as a result of 70? What, against this, was once already altering earlier than 70 or remained essentially or nearly -- unchanged regardless of it? How do the Diaspora, which used to be lengthy used to Temple-less Judaism, and early Christianity, which was once born round the similar time, slot in? This Scholion Library quantity provides twenty papers given at a world convention in Jerusalem within which students assessed the importance of 70 for his or her respective fields of specialization, together with Jewish liturgy, legislations, literature, magic, paintings, institutional background, and early Christianity."
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We adjure you by Him who makes His name dwell in this house that you change not a word of all that we have said to you” (m. Yoma 1:5). By the end of the Second Temple era, the period to which the Mishnah refers, there can be no doubt of the existence of the Torah as we have it. 5 More than the ritual of any other day of the year the ritual of the Day of Atonement depends on the high priest. Yet the passage from the Mishnah claims that the high priest had to swear to follow the instructions of representatives of the court, experts who need not have been priests of any kind, much less connected to a high priestly family.
S. ” in A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne (ed. Z. ; Leiden, 2009), 5–33. I. Levine, “The Sages and the Synagogue in Late Antiquity,” in The Galilee in Late Antiquity (ed. I. Levine; New York, 1992), 219, to idem, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years (New Haven, 2000), 500; cf. below, n. 53. D. Swartz, “Sage, Priest, and Poet: Typologies of Leadership in the Ancient Synagogue,” in Jews, Christians, and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue (ed. S. Fine; London, 1999), 101–17; O.
Goodblatt, “The Title ‘Nasi’ and the Ideological Background of the Second Revolt,” in The Bar-Kokhba Revolt: A New Approach (ed. A. Oppenheimer and U. Rappaport; Jerusalem, 1984), 113–32 (in Hebrew; see also idem, “The Priestly Component in Ancient Jewish Nationalism,” in idem, Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism [New York, 2006], 71–107); M. Goodman, “Sadducees and Essenes after 70 ce,” in Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder (ed. E. S. ” in A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne (ed.
