The memory of the Temple and the making of the rabbis - Cohn, Naftali S. (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The narration of temple ritual as rabbinic memory in the late second or early third century -- Rabbis as jurists of Judean ritual law and competing claims for authority -- The temple, the great court, and rabbinic invention of the past -- Narrative form and rabbinic authority -- Constructing sacred space -- The Mishnah in the context of a wider Judean, Christian, and Roman temple discourse -- The memory of the temple and the making of the rabbis -- The Mishnah's temple ritual narratives and court-centered ritual narratives -- Mishnaic narratives in which a rabbi or rabbis issue an opinion with respect to a case