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<p>When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritu

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Author

Templo de Jerusalén.;Cohn, Naftali S

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812244571

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Judaism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25