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Rabbinic texts and the history of late-Roman Palestine

This volume brings together studies by experts in the rabbinic literature of late antiquity and by specialists in the history of the Jews in that period, in order to reveal the value of rabbinic material as historical evidence and the problems and issues which arise in its exploitation for this purpose. A substantial introductory section discusses both the current state of knowledge about Palestine in this period, and the debates about the difficulties involved in editing and dating rabbinic texts. Specific core texts and text categories are then introduced to the reader in a series of ten...

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