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.

UNINA9910817318603321

Autore

Shavit Jacob

Titolo

Athens in Jerusalem : classical antiquity and Hellenism in the making of the modern secular Jew / / Jacob Shavit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-80034-087-7

1-909821-76-4

Edizione

[First digital on-demand edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 560 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online.

Disciplina

296.3/7

Soggetti

Judaism - Relations - Greek religion

Jews - Civilization - Greek influences

Judaism - History - Modern period, 1750- - Historiography

Greece Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 1997.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The author believes that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now internalised by the Jewish people '.