On stoves, sex, and slave-girls: rabbinic \ orthodoxy and the definition of Jewish identity.(Critical essay)

Hebrew Studies Journal | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

In an enormously influential paper, "The Significance of Yavneh," historian Shaye Cohen produced a virtual revolution in the depiction of rabbinic Judaism, arguing that at Yavneh there was "created a society based on the doctrine that conflicting disputants may each be advancing the words of the living God."! Indeed, more than once, directly contradictory interpretations are validated by a heavenly voice intoning: "these and these are the words of the living God." The opinion of every member of the House of Study is equally valid. Statements such as this have been taken up in ...

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