Statement

Hope for restoration did not prevent adaptation to a world without the Temple. Julian's failure seems to have made little difference: rabbinic sources never mention it, a sign that the Temple's presence or absence already mattered little to Jewish religious life.

References

1. p. 121

   supports · main text · ch. 5

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: Jewish Life in a Christianized Roman Context

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