The Rise of Talmud / Moulie Vidas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vidas, Moulie, author.

Series:

The Bible and the Humanities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amoraim.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes elaborate commentary on the sages' own teachings. The Rise of Talmud argues that the development of this commentary, later called Talmud, transformed the sages' self-perception and intellectual world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Texts, Translations, and Citations

Introduction

The Amoraic Turn and the Mishnah

Method

Part I INDIVIDUATION

Introduction to Part I

1 Who Is Speaking?: Identification of Anonymous Teachings

1. Identifications and their significance

2. The premise of identifications: the Mishnah, anonymity, and the law

Later Amoraic scholars on anonymity and the Mishnah

R. Yohanan and R. Simeon on anonymous teachings

3. Demonstrating identifications

4. Interpreting with identifications

5. Attributions and identifications in Tannaitic compilations

6. Attribution and interpretation between the Talmud and Greek and Latin scholarship

Conclusion

2 The Sages, Opinionated: De'ah and Individual Inclination

1. The history of "opinion"

2. Ke-da'ateh

3. The distinctiveness and scope of ke-da'ateh

4. Demonstrating personal inclination

5. Attribution-based associations in the Tannaitic corpus

3 The Switched Line: Shita and Reading for Consistency

1. The term shita

2. The rise of inconsistency objections: the phrase meḥalefa shitateh de-rabbi

3. What is the problem?

4. Consistency and textuality

Consistency and text-critical questions

Consistency and citation

5. From middah to shita

4 Lip-Synching in the Grave: Narratives and Images of Attribution

1. Passage I: R. Yohanan, R. Eleazar, and Eternal Glory

Leaning on the shoulders of disciples

Citation and honor

An Amoraic view of Tannaitic citation practices

Quotation, idols, and God

Quotation and immortality

"Useful in the grave is a name on people's mouth"

Tannaitic teachings on the ethics of quotations

2. Passage II: Echoes from Sinai

From R. Joshua's bath to Sinai.

Attribution and Sinaitic revelation

"He must see the master of the teaching"

Conclusion: beyond the master-disciple relationship

Individual authorship in the rabbinic interpretation of Scripture

Attribution and authorship between the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods

What is an attribution?

Part II IMPERFECTION

Introduction to Part II

Textual interpretation in the Tannaitic compilations

5 The Scattered Torah: The Problem of Textual Knowledge

1. Recited teachings transported and discovered

2. Amoraic teachings coming and going

3. "He did not hear"

4. Access to rabbinic teachings in Tannaitic literature

6 Variae Recitationes: Comparison of Divergent Texts

1. "There is a reciter reciting"

2. The emergence of Talmudic "variant readings"

3. Typology of divergences and their presentation

4. The Talmud's commentary on recitation divergences

5. Recitation divergences and the Amoraic configuration of textual difference

6. Textual difference in ancient scholarship: the example of Christian biblical scholarship in Palestine

7. Fictional and functional

7 It's Not Here: Emendations

1. Emendations as paratextual comments

2. Emendations and alternative attestations

3. Why emend?

4. Where is "here"?

8 Needy, Lost, and Kind of Divine: Intertextuality, Necessity, and Recontextualization

1. Intertextuality and the imperfection of the Mishnah

2. "Necessary" or "needy"?

3. Recontextualization and fragmentation

Faulty transmission and recontextualization

"It was not said about this, but about that"

"Two reciters" and recontextualization

Conclusion: The More Humane Letters

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Rabbinic Terms and Phrases

Index of Halakhic Subjects

Index Locorum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0-19-891503-9

0-19-891505-5

0-19-891504-7

OCLC:

1485601517