The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, its Social Meaning and Context. - LIGHTSTONE, JACK N.
its social meaning and context
KORTE INHOUD
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a “master.” This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalized linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the Talmud’s (renowned) dialectical, analytic “essays.” Second, the work considers the social meanings implicitly communicated by the use of this rhetoric, which not only provided an authoritative model for modes of thought and for treatment of earlier authoritative Judaic tradition, but also reflected, reinforced or helped engender new social definitions. Through comparison of the Talmud’s rhetoric with that of other, earlier rabbinic documents and by placing the ed...
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1994 Uitgever: Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press 317 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0889202389 ISBN-13: 9780889202382Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xiv, 318pp., [iv], appendices, references, bibliography, index. Very fine copy. Volume 6: Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme. Waterloo [Can], Canedian Corporation for Studies in Religion-Wilfrid Laurier University Press. . 1994 [Auteur: LIGHTSTONE, JACK N.] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, its Social Meaning and Context.]
