Statement

Over the centuries after the Second Temple fell, a group of sages formed to whom we now give the title rabbi. They changed Judaism lastingly: they rethought what the Torah was and how to study it, found paths to God that did without the Temple, and produced new works (Mishnah, midrash, Talmud) that came to guide Jewish life with a weight comparable to the Hebrew Bible's. How much they counted in their own time is hard to say, but their effect on later Jewish culture was so great that present-day Judaism is in practice a rabbinic Judaism, shaped by ideas and practices of late antiquity.

References

1. p. 120

   supports · main text · ch. 5

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 120

   supports · main text · ch. 5

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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3. p. 120

   supports · main text · ch. 5

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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