Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE
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The classical Rabbinic tradition (legal, discursive, and exegetical) claims to be Oral Torah, transmitted by word of mouth in an unbroken chain deriving its authority ultimately from diving revelation to Moses at Sinai. Since the third century C.E., however, this tradition has been embodied in written texts. Through judicious deployment and analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee is able to show that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes.
Introduction3Pt. IOral Tradition and Second Temple Scribalism: The Spoken Word and Ideologies of the Book1Social Settings of Literacy and Scribal Orality152Performative Reading and Text Interpretation at Qumran283The Media of Pharisaic Text-Interpretive Tradition39Pt. IIOral Tradition and Early Rabbinism: The Spoken Word in an Ideology of Tradition4Tannaitic Tradition as an Object of Rabbinic Reflection655The Ideological Construction of Torah in the Mouth846Composing the Tannaitic Oral-Literary Tradition1007Torah in the Mouth in Galilean Discipleship Communities1268Epilogue153Appendix157Notes161Bibliography211Index of Citations229General Index237
