Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism : The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi

and Byzantine Christian scholarly practices, Catherine Hezser demonstrates how rabbinic compilatory techniques resembled but also differed from.those of Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian scholars. The book highlights how rabbinic compilations are idiosyncratic and create a distinct rabbinic identity. Overall, Hezser argues that rabbinic scholarship was an integral part of late antique intellectual life in the Near Middle East and should be recognized as an Eastern equivalent to Western, "paideia"-based forms of scholarship in the Roman-Byzantine period and beyond. [Publisher's Text]