Transmitting Jewish Traditions / David D. Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, David D., Author.

Contributor:

Elman, Yaakov.

Gershoni, I.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the impact of changing modes of cultural transmission on Jewish and Western cultures over the past two thousand years. The contributors to the volume survey some of the ways-conscious and subconscious-in which cultural elements are selected, shaped, and transmitted, and some of the ways they in turn shape the future of their cultures. Focusing on a range of Jewish cultures from late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern period, the authors consider both the transformation of traditions in their travels from one contemporaneous cultural context to another and their transformation within a single culture over time. Some of the studies in the book deal with the transition from mixed oral-written cultures to ones in which written-print is nearly exclusive. Other chapters deal with the processes of transmission such as anthologizing, translating, teaching, and sermonizing. By contextualizing Jewish culture within Western culture and including a comparative perspective, the book makes an important contribution to Judaic studies as well as to other areas of the humanities concerned with questions of textuality and culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

INTRODUCTION: Transmitting Tradition: Omlity and Textuality in Jewish Cultures

ONE: The Oral-Cultural Context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman Rhetorical Paideia, Discipleship, and the Concept of Oral Torah

TWO: Between Byzantium and Islam: The Transmission of a Jewish Book in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods

THREE: Omlity and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa

FOUR: Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah

FIVE: Beyond the Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

SIX: Publication and Reproduction of Literary Texts in Medieval Jewish Civilization: Jewish Scribality and Its Impact on the Texts Transmitted

SEVEN: The Sermon as Oral Performance

EIGHT: From East to West: Translating T. L. Perets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

NINE: The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a "National Culture" in Palestine

TEN: "Secondary Intellectuals" Readers, and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300145939

0300145934

OCLC:

1013962820