The mind of the Talmud : an intellectual history of the Bavli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraemer, David Charles, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talmud.

Jewish law--Interpretation and construction.

Jewish law.

Local Subjects:

Talmud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Balylonian Talmud, or Bavli. The most comprehensive of all the documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity, for some its opinions remain definitive today.

Contents:

Contents; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. On Writing an Intellectual History of the Bavli; 2. A History of Amoraic Literary Expression; 3. The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation; 4. The Bavli Considered as a Whole; 5. The Meaning of Argumentation; 6. The Bavli on ""Truth""; 7. The Bavli in Comparative Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index to Primary Rabbinic Sources

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774009-X

1-280-53338-2

0-19-802283-2

OCLC:

252604491