Download or read book The Rhetoric of Innovation written by Aaron D. Panken and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through critical examination of more than 1,000 occurrences of terms depicting legal innovation, this study maps the contours of legal change reported during the rabbinic period. The Rhetoric of Innovation examines temporal clusters of statements and actions attributed to authority figures in the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods, also reviewing the geographic distribution of these words and their divergent usages in documents edited in Roman Palestine and Babylonia.