Description: This book contains pioneering research on aspects of society, culture and geography of rabbinic Torah centers in Palestine 70-400 CE. It surveys the history of the centers in their geographic and social context in chronological order.
Review Quotes: "This book is essential for the study of Jewish sages in the first centuries C.E. and should have a place in every serious Jewish Studies collection."
Yoram Bitton, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3.