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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785209803321

Autore

Novick Tzvi

Titolo

What is good, and what God demands [[electronic resource] ] : normative structures in tannaitic literature / / by Tzvi Novick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-94887-3

9786612948879

90-04-18829-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; ; v. 144

Disciplina

296.1/8

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Tannaim

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 (p. [217]-228) and an indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / T. Novick -- Introduction / T. Novick -- Chapter One. Categorical Oppositions / T. Novick -- Chapter Two. Teleological Mitzvah / T. Novick -- Chapter Three. Scripture And World: Between The Schools Of R. Akiva And R. Ishmael / T. Novick -- Chapter Four. The Normative Realm As Mitzvah / T. Novick -- Chapter Five. "One Need Not Scruple": Law As Intrusion / T. Novick -- Chapter Six. Cautious Actors / T. Novick -- Chapter Seven. Eager Observance / T. Novick -- Chapter Eight. Exemplarity / T. Novick -- Conclusion / T. Novick -- Bibliography / T. Novick -- Index Of Names / T. Novick -- Index Of Sources / T. Novick.

Sommario/riassunto

The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of tannaitic normativity. However, these two frameworks overlook precisely the productive intersection of deontological with non-deontological, the first because supererogation defines itself against obligation, and the second because the Greco-Roman comparate discourages serious treatment of law-like elements. This book



addresses ways in which alternative normative forms entwine with the core deontological rhetoric of tannaitic literature. This perspective exposes, inter alia, echoes of the post-biblical wisdom tradition in tannaitic law, the rich polyvalence of the category mitzvah, and telling differences between the schools of Akiva and Ishmael.