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The next chapter deals with rabbinic Judaism. Although it is commonly presented as a response to the fall of the Second Temple, the authors note that it only developed centuries later, probably when many Jews had already learned to live without the Temple.
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p. 119
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Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
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