Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Simcha Fishbane, Calvin Goldscheider, Jack N. Lightstone

Titel

Exploring Mishnah's World(s): Social Scientific Approaches

Auflage

1st Edition 2021

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary- historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, anavenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.