1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787712003321

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

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.

UNINA9910788463103321

Autore

Stearns Justin K. <1974->

Titolo

Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4214-0105-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

362.196/9

Soggetti

Plague - history - Spain

Plague - history - Portugal

Plague - history - Africa, Northern

Leprosy - history - Spain

Leprosy - history - Portugal

Leprosy - history - Africa, Northern

Islam - history - Spain

Islam - history - Portugal

Islam - history - Africa, Northern

Cross-Cultural Comparison - Spain

Cross-Cultural Comparison - Portugal

Cross-Cultural Comparison - Africa, Northern

Communicable Diseases - Spain

Communicable Diseases - Portugal

Communicable Diseases - Africa, Northern

Christianity - history - Spain

Christianity - history - Portugal

Christianity - history - Africa, Northern

Medicine in Literature - Spain

Medicine in Literature - Portugal

Medicine in Literature - Africa, Northern

Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500

Medicine - Religious aspects - Islam - History - To 1500

Epidemiology - History - To 1500

Medicine, Medieval - Western Mediterranean



Diseases - Causes and theories of causation - History - To 1500

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.