Rabbinic Judaism

Summary

Rabbinic Judaism, also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, is rooted in the many forms of Judaism that coexisted and together formed Second Temple Judaism in the land of Israel, giving birth to classical rabbinic Judaism, which flourished from the 1st century CE to the final redaction of the Talmud in c. 600. Mainly developing after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, it eventually became the normative form of Judaism.