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Reading the rabbis
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ISBN: 1280533633 0195357248 9780195357240 0195096231 9780195096231 0197740677 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers and students have turned to the Talmud for evidence of rabbinic history, religion, rhetoric, or anthropology; still, few have employed a genuinely literary approach. In Reading the Rabbis, Kraemer attempts to fill this gap. He uses the tools developed in the study of other liter

The reader's guide to the Talmud
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ISSN: 15661237 ISBN: 128046481X 9786610464814 141754015X 9047400984 9781417540150 9789047400981 9789004121874 9004121870 6610464812 9004121870 Year: 2001 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) seeks to answer basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing?


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A history of the Talmud
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ISBN: 9781108481366 1108481361 9781108611411 9781108722261 1108655556 1108661769 1108611419 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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"It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it"--

The philosophy of the Talmud
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ISBN: 0203037057 1283962918 1136117385 9781136117381 9780203037058 9781136117466 1136117466 9781136117541 1136117547 0700712739 9780700712731 041559264X 9780415592642 Year: 2002 Publisher: London New York, NY RoutledgeCurzon

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This is a new presentation of the philosophy of the Talmud. The Talmud is not a work of formal philosophy, but much of what it says is relevant to philosophical enquiry, including issues explored in contemporary debates. In particular, the Talmud has original ideas about the relation between universal ethics and the ethics of a particular community. This leads into a discussion on the relation between morality and ritual, and also about the epistemological role of tradition. The book explains the paradoxes of Talmudic Judaism as arising from a philosophy of revolution, stemming from Jewish


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Reading Talmudic sources as arguments : a new interpretive approach
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ISBN: 9789004430044 9004430040 9789004430037 9004430032 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments: A New Interpretive Approach elucidates the unique characteristics of Talmudic discourse culture. Approaching Talmudic literature from a linguistic perspective, the book shows the extensive and hidden ways in which later rabbis used early formulations. Applying Quentin Skinner's interpretive question “What was the author doing in composing the text in this particular way?" to Talmudic literature reveals that Talmudic debate is not only about ideas, concepts and laws but also about the latter's connection to pre-existing formulations. These early traditions, rather than only being accepted or not, are used by later generations to build their own arguments. The book articulates the function of tradition at the time that Rabbinic Judaism was forged.


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Pious Irreverence : Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism
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ISBN: 0812293053 081224835X Year: 2017 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age. Weiss argues that this particular Jewish relationship to the divine is rooted in the most canonical of rabbinic texts even as he demonstrates that in ancient Judaism the idea of debating God was itself a matter of debate. By elucidating competing views and exploring their theological assumptions, the book challenges the scholarly claim that the early rabbis conceived of God as a morally perfect being whose goodness had to be defended in the face of biblical accounts of unethical divine action. Pious Irreverence examines the ways in which the rabbis searched the words of the Torah for hidden meanings that could grant them the moral authority to express doubt about, and frustration with, the biblical God. Using characters from the Bible as their mouthpieces, they often challenged God's behavior, even in a few remarkable instances, envisioning God conceding error, declaring to the protestor, "You have taught Me something; I will nullify My decree and accept your word."


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L' imitatio Dei dans le Targum et la Aggada
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ISBN: 9068312952 Year: 1990 Volume: vol 97 9 Publisher: Louvain Paris Peeters


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How to study the Bavli : the languages, literatures, and lessons of the Talmud of Babylonia
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ISBN: 1555406882 Year: 1992 Volume: vol 37 Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. Scholars Press


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Judaism states its theology : the Talmudic re-presentation
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ISBN: 1555408907 Year: 1993 Volume: 88 Publisher: Atlanta Scholars Press


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A legacy of learning : essays in honor of Jacob Neusner
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ISBN: 9789004284272 9789004284289 Year: 2014 Volume: 43 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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