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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782304803321

Autore

Kraemer David Charles

Titolo

The mind of the Talmud : an intellectual history of the Bavli / / David Kraemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990

ISBN

0-19-774009-X

1-280-53338-2

0-19-802283-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

296.1/2506

Soggetti

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. On Writing an Intellectual History of the Bavli; 2. A History of Amoraic Literary Expression; 3. The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation; 4. The Bavli Considered as a Whole; 5. The Meaning of Argumentation; 6. The Bavli on ""Truth""; 7. The Bavli in Comparative Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index to Primary Rabbinic Sources

Sommario/riassunto

This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions remain definitive today. Kraemer here examines the characteristic preference for argumentation and process over settled conclusions of the Bavli.