1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463668803321

Autore

Vidas Moulie <1983->

Titolo

Tradition and the formation of the Talmud / / Moulie Vidas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4008-5047-9

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

296.1/25066

Soggetti

Talmud - History

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a thesis (Ph. D) Princeton University, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- A Note on Style Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter One. The Alterity of Tradition -- Chapter Two. The Division into Layers -- Chapter Three. Composition as Critique -- Part II -- Chapter Four. Scholars, Transmitters, and the Making of Talmud -- Chapter Five. The Debate about Recitation -- Chapter Six. Tradition and Vision -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Source Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the



Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779962103321

Autore

Pope Alexander

Titolo

Alexander Pope : Selected Poetry and Prose / / Alexander Pope and Robin Sowerby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2002]

©1988

ISBN

1-134-98689-0

1-134-98690-4

1-280-32539-9

0-203-20029-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Routledge English texts

Disciplina

821/.5

828.509

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. 249-251.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Ode on Solitude; Adriani morientis ad Animam; To Henry Cromwell, 19 October 1709 [with Argus]; To Henry Cromwell, 25 November 1710 [on versification]; An Essay on Criticism; Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; from Windsor Forest; [On sickness] (essay from The Guardian); The Rape of the Lock; Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation; Eloisa to Abelard; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; from the Preface to the Works of Shakespeare; To Mrs M.B. on her Birthday

Epitaph. On Mrs Corbett, Who died of a Cancer in her BreastEpitaph. On Mr Gay. In Westminster Abbey, 1732; Epistle to a lady. Of the



Characters of Women; Epistle to Burlington; To Dr Arbuthnot, 26 July 1734 [On his satire]; An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated: To Mr Fortescue; The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated: To L.Bolingbroke; The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace: To Venus; Critical commentary; Select bibliography; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.