Roots of Rabbinic Judaism

In a bold challenge to the long-held scholarly notion that Rabbinic Judaism was already an established presence during the Second Temple period, Gabriele Boccaccini here argues that Rabbinic Judaism was actually a daring reform movement that developed following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and that only took shape in the first centuries of the common era.

Through careful analysis of Second Temple sources, Boccaccini explores the earliest roots of the Rabbinic system of thought in the period from the Babylonian exile to the Maccabean revolt, or from Ezekiel to Daniel. He argues convincingly that a line of thought links Rabbinic Judaism back to Zadokite Judaism through the mediation of the Pharisaic movement. Roots of Rabbinic Judaism is sure to be widely debated by all interested in the origins and development of modern Judaism.

Gabriele Boccaccini is professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Michigan

Abbreviations

ix

Preface From Formative Judaism to Rabbinic Origins and Roots

xiii

Introduction The Intellectual Quest of Rabbinic Origins and Roots

1

(1)

Back to Sinai: The Founding Myth of Rabbinic Judaism

1

(7)

From Judaism to Judaisms: Four Scholarly Models

8

(7)

The Rise of Intellectual History

15

(11)

An Intellectual History of Judaism

26

(17)

The Rise of Zadokite Judaism

43

(30)

The Struggle for Priestly Supremacy

43

(6)

The Return from the Babylonian Exile

49

(12)

Sons of Levi, Sons of Aaron, Sons of Phinehas

61

(12)

Zadokite Judaism and Its Opponents

73

(40)

The Zadokite Worldview

73

(9)

Early Opponents: Samaritans, Tobiads, Prophets

82

(7)

The Priestly Opposition: Enochic Judaism

89

(14)

The Lay Opposition: Sapiential Judaism

103

(10)

The Rapprochement between Zadokite and Sapiential Judaism

113

(38)

The Beginnings of Hellenistic Rule under the Ptolemies

113

(11)

An Unexpected Supporter of Zadokite Judaism: Tobit

124

(7)

From the Ptolemies to the Seleucids: The Golden Age of Zadokite Priesthood

131

(3)

Ben Sira's Synthesis of Zadokite and Sapiential Judaism

134

(17)

Daniel: A Third Way between Zadokite and Enochic Judaism

151

(52)

The End of the Zadokite Power

151

(12)

The Emergence of a ``Third Way'' between Zadokite and Enochic Judaism

163

(6)

The Danielic Revolution

169

(34)

Summary and Conclusion

203

(8)

Bibliography

211

(16)

Index

227

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