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"Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the Torah prohibition of usury in loans to all fields of credit. It is a pioneering inquiry regarding rabbinic literature compiled under Roman and Sasanid rule, helping to fill the void in research concerning credit. It also distinguishes various kinds of credit differentiating credit of money for money, or products, exposing the ramifications of the rabbinic legislation"--
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The book presents a variety of topics relating to the market in Roman Palestine. The book deals with the main elements of commercial life - the different types of markets and the entities and figures that played a part in it. It portrays the process by which the flow of goods in the market occurs - from the end of the production process, via the entire range of middlemen, to the end user. A chapter is devoted to the pricing of merchandise in the economy of Roman Palestine. It offers a comprehensive framework which includes the techniques by which prices were determined and enforced. Other chapters deal with the image of the different market vendors, as viewed by the public and by the Jewish sages, and the commercial activity that took place in and around the synagogues. The book is based on a combination of rabbinic, literary and archaeological sources as well as epigraphic findings. It depicts the economy of Roman Palestine against the backdrop of the Roman Empire.
Markets --- Marketing --- Jews --- Marketing in rabbinical literature. --- Rabbinical literature --- Marchés --- Juifs --- Marketing dans la littérature rabbinique --- Littérature rabbinique --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Palestine --- Rome --- Economic conditions. --- Antiquities. --- Conditions économiques --- Antiquités --- 933.33 --- 908 <33> --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd I; Masadah; vernieling van deTempel--(63 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- Heemkunde. Area studies--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- 908 <33> Heemkunde. Area studies--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- 933.33 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd I; Masadah; vernieling van deTempel--(63 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- Marchés --- Marketing dans la littérature rabbinique --- Littérature rabbinique --- Conditions économiques --- Antiquités --- Marketing in rabbinical literature --- Public markets --- Commerce --- Fairs --- Market towns --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Retail trade --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Selling --- History and criticism --- 70-638 --- Economic conditions --- Antiquities --- To 1500
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"Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine brings together an international community of historians, literature scholars and archaeologists to explore how the integrated study of rabbinic texts and archaeology increases our understanding of both types of evidence, and of the complex culture which they together reflect. This volume reflects a growing consensus that rabbinic culture was an "embodied" culture, presenting a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of archaeology for the contextualization of rabbinic literature. It steers away from later twentieth-century trends, particularly in North America, that stressed disjunction between archaeology and rabbinic literature, and seeks a more holistic approach"--
Rabbinical literature --- Archaeology --- Littérature rabbinique --- Archéologie --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Bible --- Antiquities. --- History and criticism --- History --- Antiquities --- Littérature rabbinique --- Archéologie --- Rabbinical literature - History and criticism --- Archaeology - Palestine - History
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