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The culture of the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM502 .R93 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubenstein, Jeffrey L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talmud--Criticism, Redaction.
- Talmud.
- Talmud--Language, style.
- Talmudic academies.
- Rabbis--Iraq--Babylonia--Intellectual life.
- Rabbis.
- Aggada--History and criticism.
- Aggada.
- Logic--Iraq--Babylonia.
- Logic.
- Narration in rabbinical literature.
- Intellectual life.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and has remained so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Rabbinic Academy 16
- Chapter 2 Dialectics 39
- Chapter 3 Violence 54
- Chapter 4 Shame 67
- Chapter 5 Lineage and Rabbinic Leadership 80
- Chapter 6 Wives 102
- Chapter 7 Elitism: The Sages and the Amei ha'arets 123
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Legacy of the Stammaim 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-211) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0801873886
- OCLC:
- 51323655
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