LEADER 04856nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910788583003321 005 20230725045259.0 010 $a1-283-89673-7 010 $a0-8122-0498-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204988 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064722 035 $a(OCoLC)794700579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642733 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606218 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11391747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596492 035 $a(PQKB)10299993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441981 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8279 035 $a(DE-B1597)449353 035 $a(OCoLC)979684722 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642733 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420923 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064722 100 $a20110118d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBecoming the people of the Talmud$b[electronic resource] $eoral Torah as written tradition in medieval Jewish cultures /$fTalya Fishman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (413 pages) $cillustrations, map 225 0 $aJewish Culture and Contexts 225 0$aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4313-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-387) and index. 327 $tThe Place of Oral Matters in Geonic Culture --$tOral Matters among Jews of Qayrawan and al-Andalus: Framing Sefarad --$tFraming Ashkenaz: Cultural Landmarks of Medieval Northern European Societies --$tTextualization of Northern European Rabbinic Culture: The Changing Role of Talmud --$tMedieval Responses to the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture --$tRhineland Pietism and the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Northern Europe. 330 $aIn Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud-which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later-precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life.What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena-the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud-were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life. 410 0$aJewish culture and contexts. 606 $aTalmud Torah (Judaism)$xHistory 606 $aJewish law$xInterpretation and construction 606 $aTosafists 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aTalmud Torah (Judaism)$xHistory. 615 0$aJewish law$xInterpretation and construction. 615 0$aTosafists. 676 $a296.1/2 700 $aFishman$b Talya$f1955-$01467628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788583003321 996 $aBecoming the people of the Talmud$93678361 997 $aUNINA