Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Name: Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
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ISBN: 9780226069180

ISBN-10: 0226069184

ISBN-13: 9780226069180

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 unique combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond the typological parallelism between the texts, arguing also for a cultural relationship. InSocrates and the Fat Rabbis,Boyarin suggests that these 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 monologic in spirit. At the same time,…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/28/2009
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 408
Language: English