Reading the Rabbis The Talmud As Literature

Name: Reading the Rabbis The Talmud As Literature
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ISBN: 9780195096231

ISBN-10: 0195096231

ISBN-13: 9780195096231

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Kraemer

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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 literatures, particularly rhetorical and reader-response criticisms, to unearth previously unnoticed…

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List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.62" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Abbreviations



Introduction: The Talmud as Religious Literature



Torah, Written and Oral



The Rabbis and Scripture



Rhetorics of Tradition and Innovation



On Truth, Human and Divine



Pluralism and Pragmatism



Women Categorized



The Problem with Foreskin: Circumcision, Gender, Impurity, and Death



On Human Suffering



The Difference a Lens Makes


Notes


Bibliography


Index