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The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context

The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context

Lightstone, Jack N.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism, Book 6

Religion General JudaismAncient History General

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ISBN10: 0889202389
ISBN13: 9780889202382
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Jun 3 1994
Pages: 331
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a master. This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalized linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the Talmud's (renowned) dialectical, analytic essays. Second, the work considers the social meanings implicitly communicated by the use of this rhetoric, which not only provided an authoritative model for modes of thought and for treatment of earlier authoritative Judaic tradition, but also reflected, reinforced or helped engender new social definitions.

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