Joel Gereboff

In the Seat of Moses

World Religions

“Drawing upon his own scholarship and years of teaching rabbinic literature to students, laypeople, and scholars in fields related to early rabbinic Judaism, such as early Christianity, emergent Islam, and Greco-Roman culture, Lightstone lays out with pedagogic skill the stylistic conventions of rabbinic literature, document by document. These analyses also enable readers to grasp the competencies and traits of mind nurtured by these works thereby also disclosing key features of the relational and institutional structures of the rabbis between the second and seventh centuries that fostered those developments.”

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Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"Drawing upon the breadth and depth of his knowledge of ancient Near Eastern studies, modern biblical scholarship, and numerous methodologies, Moore traverses the range of genres within the Bible, yielding new understanding. The collection of essays exhibits uniformly philological, literary, and historical richness. Torrents of insights flow from these essays.”

What Were the Early Rabbis?

World Religions

“What Were the Early Rabbis? both translates the best of current academic scholarship on the early phases of Rabbinic Judaism and offers non-experts and scholars alike a fresh and insightful approach to tracking these developments. By drawing upon social-scientific approaches, Jack N. Lightstone moves away from a typical focus on individuals and ideas alone to social institutional factors that led to and sustained the formation of a group that over time changed the lives of Jews and others in the West.”