TY - BOOK ID - 128951459 TI - Heresy and the formation of the Rabbinic Community PY - 2017 SN - 3161553349 9783161553349 9783161551475 3161551478 PB - Tübingen : Mohr, DB - UniCat KW - Heresy in rabbinical literature. KW - Jewish heresies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128951459 AB - Publisher's description: Between the first and sixth centuries C.E., a community of rabbis systematized their ideas about Judaism in works such as the Mishnah and the Talmud. David M. Grossberg reexamines this community's gradual formation as reflected in polemical texts. He contends that these texts' primary aim was not to describe real rabbinic opponents but to create and enforce boundaries between rabbis and others and within the developing rabbinic movement. ER -