02566nam 2200541Ia 450 991077701840332120230731211359.00-19-774067-71-280-53363-30-19-535724-8(CKB)1000000000414784(EBL)431019(OCoLC)252605009(SSID)ssj0000233118(PQKBManifestationID)11173554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233118(PQKBWorkID)10215741(PQKB)10755640(Au-PeEL)EBL431019(CaPaEBR)ebr10279431(CaONFJC)MIL53363(MiAaPQ)EBC431019(EXLCZ)99100000000041478419950807d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading the rabbis the Talmud as literature /David KraemerNew York :Oxford University Press,1996.1 online resource (x, 165 pages)0-19-509623-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) and index.Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Talmud as Religious Literature; 2. Torah, Written and Oral; 3. The Rabbis and Scripture; 4. Rhetorics of Tradition and Innovation; 5. On Truth, Human and Divine; 6. Pluralism and Pragmatism; 7. Women Categorized; 8. The Problem with Foreskin: Circumcision, Gender, Impurity, and Death; 9. On Human Suffering; 10. The Difference a Lens Makes; Notes; Bibliography; IndexTraditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers and students have turned to the Talmud for evidence of rabbinic history, religion, rhetoric, or anthropology; still, few have employed a genuinely literary approach. In Reading the Rabbis, Kraemer attempts to fill this gap. He uses the tools developed in the study of other literRabbinical literatureTalmud as literature.Rabbinical literature.296.1/25066Kraemer David Charles1473228MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777018403321Reading the rabbis3821860UNINA