Böcker av Jack N. Lightstone

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence.

In order to shed light on the early social formation of the rabbinic guild of masters, Lightstone brings the theoretical and methodological insights of socio-rhetorical analysis to examine Mishnah, the first document authored by the early rabbinic movement and its principal object of study for several centuries.

In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy in six urban Canadian synagogues.

Examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalised rhetoric which pervades the "Babylonian Talmud". This title explores how the editors of the "Talmud" employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalised linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the "Talmud's" renowned dialectical, analytic 'essays'.