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Contributors
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ix
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Introduction
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xv
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Part 1. The Synagogue
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1
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Lee I. Levine (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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1. Diversity in the Ancient Synagogue of Roman-Byzantine Palestine: Historical Implications
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3
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Michael D. Swartz (Ohio State University)
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2. Society and the Self in Early Piyyut
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33
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José Costa (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3)
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3. Some Remarks about Non-Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinization, and Synagogal Judaism
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67
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Part 2. Evidence For Non-Rabbinic Judaism: The Near East
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119
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Geoffrey Herman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL)
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4. In Search of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia
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121
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Robert Brody (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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5. Varieties of Non-Rabbinic Judaism in Geonic and Contemporaneous Sources
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139
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Yoram Erder (Tel Aviv University)
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6. Karaites and Sadducees
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153
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Christian Julien Robin (CNRS, Membre de l’Institut)
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7. The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Ḥimyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion
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165
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Part 3. Evidence for Non-Rabbinic Judaism: Europe
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271
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Capucine Nemo-Pekelman (Université Paris Nanterre)
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8. The Didascalus Annas: A Jewish Political and Intellectual Figure from the West
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273
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Giancarlo Lacerenza (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
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9. Rabbis in Southern Italian Jewish Inscriptions from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
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291
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Michael Toch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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10. Jewish Demographics and Economics at the Onset of the European Middle Ages
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323
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Part 4. Rabbinization
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337
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Ron Naiweld (CNRS)
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11. The Rabbinization Tractates and the Propagation of Rabbinic Ideology in the Late Talmudic Period
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339
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Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL)
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12. Who is the Target of Toledot Yeshu?
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359
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Gavin McDowell (École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL)
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13. Rabbinization of Non-Rabbinic Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer
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381
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Günter Stemberger (University of Vienna)
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14. Seder Eliyahu Rabbah: Rabbinic Tradition for a Non-Rabbinic Society
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413
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Ra‘anan Boustan (Princeton University)
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Afterword: Rabbinization and the Persistence of Diversity in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity
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427
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List of Illustrations
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451
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Index
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457
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