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The rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud : its social meaning and context / Jack N. Lightstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lightstone, Jack N.
- Series:
- Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 6.
- Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Etudes sur le christianisme et le judaisme ; no. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbinical literature.
- Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Talmud.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a ""master."" This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalized linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the Talmud's (renowned) dialectical, anal
- Contents:
- Contents; Charts; Preface; Abbreviations and Editions; 1 Introduction; 2 Bavli's Structural Formularies; 3 Bavli's Structural Formularies in Comparative Relief; 4 Bavli's Dialectical Formularies; 5 Bavli's Dialectical Formularies in Comparative Relief; 6 Summary and Conclusions: The Social Meaning and Context of Bavli's Rhetoric; Appendix A: A Comparative Analysis of the Distribution of Selected Structural Formulae in Nine Tractates of the Bavli; Appendix B: The Hebrew-Aramaic Texts of b. Avodah Zarah 14b-16a and b. Bekorot 2a-5b; References and Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes text in Hebrew-Aramaic.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613810526
- 9781282232785
- 1282232789
- 9780889207264
- 0889207267
- OCLC:
- 753479529
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