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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis Author: Naftali S. Cohn Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-14 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought Publisher's Summary: When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more than a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominanc