Historical-Archaeological considerations as elements for a reassessment of Max Weber

Abstract

According to Max Weber, the Jewish ethics was directly influenced by the development of the Torah, in which traditional customs of ritual produced elements that gave his pariah status of Judaism in the world. Although the position of Weber find support on archaeological and historical documentation of modern research, the sociologist's assertion that the position of people from out of town had based the impenetrability ritual, even at the time of Deuteronomy, is refuted by recent research that only in exile and after exile, the segregationist and ritualistic laws were better observed.