Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Name: Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
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ISBN: 9780226069173

ISBN-10: 0226069176

ISBN-13: 9780226069173

Edition: 2009

Authors: Daniel Boyarin

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What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.InSocrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin’s notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English