Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE

Through analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee shows that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it in the present, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes but that the oral tradition always takes precedence.

• | Author: Martin S. Jaffee
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: April 19, 2001
• | Number of Pages: 356 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0195140672
• | ISBN-13: 9780195140675