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By Steven Fine

Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E to 640 C.E.

By Seth Schwartz
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001). 336 pp., $42.50.

No subject has been more central to modern Jewish scholarship than the role of the Pharisees and the early Rabbis in the history of Judaism. Like “Historical Jesus” scholarship for the history of Christianity, “Historical Rabbis” scholarship has often served as a Rorschach test for modern Jewish identity.

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