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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154760303321

Autore

Lightstone Jack N

Titolo

The rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud [[electronic resource] ] : its social meaning and context / / Jack N. Lightstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-282-23278-9

9786613810526

0-88920-726-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; ; no. 6

Disciplina

296.1/25066

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes text in Hebrew-Aramaic.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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