Meet the Rabbis by Brad H. Young

Author:Brad H. Young [Brad H. Young]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781441232878
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Historical Transitions within Jewish Thought

In the course of its history, Rabbinic Judaism underwent numerous changes. Taken as a whole, its early phases have a greater affinity in certain respects to biblical Judaism than to the later phases of Rabbinic Judaism. For example, in the beginning of the rabbinic epoch, the laws of the sacrificial cult and of ritual purity, so important in the Torah, also played an important role in Rabbinic Judaism. The termination of the sacrificial cult, the centralized Sanctuary, the high-priesthood and many other laws and institutions due to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, resulted in significant changes in the forms and ways of religious life of Palestinian and Diaspora Jewry. However, these changes did not cause an essential modification of the character of “mainstream” Judaism.

Alexander Guttmann, Rabbinic Judaism in the Making (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970), xi.

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