Mind of the Talmud An Intellectual History of the Bavli

Name: Mind of the Talmud An Intellectual History of the Bavli
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ISBN: 9780195062908

ISBN-10: 0195062906

ISBN-13: 9780195062908

Edition: 1990

Authors: David Kraemer

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This book traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is one of the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal force for medieval Judaism and for some its opinions remain definitive today.

Book details

List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.62" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.968



Glossary


Abbreviations


Introduction



On Writing an Intellectual History of the Bavli


The Meaning of Literary Forms


The Bavli: A Preliminary Description


The Bavli's Sources: On the Reliability of Attributions



A History of Amoraic Literary Expression


The First Amoraic Period


The Second Amoraic Period


The Third Amoraic Period


The Meaning of the Evidence



The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation


The Evidence


More Evidence and Conclusions



The Data at a Glance



The Data in Detail



The Bavli Considered as a Whole


The Urgency for Argumentation


Building on Earlier Argumentation


Building on Brief Traditions


Fictional Argumentation


Argumentation for Its Own Sake


The Bavli and the Yerushalmi Distinguished



The Meaning of Argumentation


A Philosophical Analysis: The Indeterminability of Truth


Historical Underpinnings


Theological Underpinnings



The Erosion of Authority in the Bavli's Sources



The Bavli on "Truth,"


The Separation of Truth and Practice


The Centering of Human Reason: Reason and Revelation


Human Reason on Its Own Terms: Learning Becomes Torah



The Bavli in Comparative Perspective


Truth in the Classical Philosophical Tradition


Religious Traditions and Truth


Philosophy Meets Scripture


In Conclusion: Why the Bavli?


Notes


Bibliography


General Index


Index to Primary Rabbinic Sources