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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967532603321

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, c1990

ISBN

0-19-774009-X

1-280-53338-2

0-19-802283-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

296.1/2506

Soggetti

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

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 study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Balylonian Talmud, or Bavli. The most comprehensive of all the documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity, for some its opinions remain definitive today.