 | The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis Subjects: Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) -- In rabbinical literature; Mishnah -- Criticism interpretation etc.; Rabbis -- Office; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period 10–425; Naftali S. Cohn provides an innovative understanding of the rabbinic authors of the Mishnah and their intense focus on the Temple. He contends that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis, arguing for their own importance within the complex social landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine. Naftali S. Cohn teaches religion at Concordia University in Montreal. |
