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Maren NIEHOFF, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums XVI). E. J. Brill, Leiden-New York-Köln 1992, 178 pp., cloth, Dfl 90.00. ISBN 90 04 09556 X

Maren NIEHOFF, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten zur Geschichte... 123 of Judaism. I can only applaud such an undertaking. Let's hope the author reaches the intended audience. Rabbinic Judaism treats the Mishnah as the earliest preserved docu- ment of the Oral Torah, revealed to Moses at Sinai. Put forth in ca. 200 CE, the Mishnah, seen by itself, presents a complete and encompassing system, a Judaism consisting of a way of life, a world view, and a doctrine of the Israel to whom the system is addressed. The author claims that Judaism set forth in the Mishnah constitutes a Judaism formed in response to a particular set of problems. The Judaism of the Mishnah focuses upon the critical and urgent question of whether and how, despite the loss of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 and the defeat of the effort to regain the city and rebuild the temple in 132-135, Israel retained that sanctity the Temple had embodied. Whereas the shape and structure of the later Judaic system (from 400 CE onwards) is formed in polemic against Christianity, Judaism of the Mishnah is free from Christian influ- ence (cf. the title of the book). The Mishnah does not speak of salvation but of sanctification, not of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Maren NIEHOFF, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums XVI). E. J. Brill, Leiden-New York-Köln 1992, 178 pp., cloth, Dfl 90.00. ISBN 90 04 09556 X

Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 24 (1): 123 – Jan 1, 1993

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Brill
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2212
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1570-0631
DOI
10.1163/157006393X00358
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123 of Judaism. I can only applaud such an undertaking. Let's hope the author reaches the intended audience. Rabbinic Judaism treats the Mishnah as the earliest preserved docu- ment of the Oral Torah, revealed to Moses at Sinai. Put forth in ca. 200 CE, the Mishnah, seen by itself, presents a complete and encompassing system, a Judaism consisting of a way of life, a world view, and a doctrine of the Israel to whom the system is addressed. The author claims that Judaism set forth in the Mishnah constitutes a Judaism formed in response to a particular set of problems. The Judaism of the Mishnah focuses upon the critical and urgent question of whether and how, despite the loss of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 and the defeat of the effort to regain the city and rebuild the temple in 132-135, Israel retained that sanctity the Temple had embodied. Whereas the shape and structure of the later Judaic system (from 400 CE onwards) is formed in polemic against Christianity, Judaism of the Mishnah is free from Christian influ- ence (cf. the title of the book). The Mishnah does not speak of salvation but of sanctification, not of

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