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Ausgabe:

Juni/2021

Spalte:

538–540

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Zanella, Francesco

Titel/Untertitel:

Vergeltungsvorstellungen in der tannaitischen Literatur.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019. XIII, 386 S. = Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 177. Lw. EUR 139,00. ISBN 9783161566707.

Rezensent:

Catherine Hezser

This book is the revised version of Francesco Zanella’s Habilitation thesis, submitted to the University of Hamburg in 2016. Although the declared goal of the study is to examine the origins, development, and social function of concepts of divine retribution in tannaitic literature, the analysis is limited to retribution terminology and the approach is philological only. Each of the thirteen main chapters of the book focuses on a particular Hebrew term. Z. argues that tannaitic retribution terminology served to establish identity in distinction from »otherness«. The alignment of an assumed clear-cut dichotomy between insiders and outsiders with reward and punishment is too rigid, however, and fails to acknowledge the p edagogical and motivational function of the rabbinic notion of ...


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