Reading the rabbis : the Talmud as literature /
Traditionally, 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 shi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Traditionally, 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 liter. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 165 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195357240 0195357248 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
