The Bavli That Might Have Been
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The Bavli that Might Have Been
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publsiher | : University of South Florida |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UOM:39015025219562 |
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Punishment and Freedom
Author | : Devora Steinmetz |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-06-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812240689 |
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Punishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.
The Mind of the Talmud
Author | : David Charles Kraemer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Jewish law |
ISBN | : 9780195062908 |
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This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions remain definitive today. Kraemer here examines the characteristic preference for argumentation and process over settled conclusions of the Bavli. By tracing the evolution of the argumentational style, he describes the distinct eras in the development of rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia. He then analyzes the meaning of the disputational form and concludes that the talmudic form implies the inaccessibility of perfect truth and that on account of this opinion, the pursuit of truth, in the characteristic talmudic concern for rabbinic process, becomes the ultimate act of rabbinic piety.
The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World
Author | : Geoffrey Herman,Jeffrey L. Rubenstein |
Publsiher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2018-08-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781946527103 |
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Essays that explore the rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli), the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the late Sasanian era (sixth–seventh century CE), also incorporates a great deal of aggada, that is, nonlegal material, including interpretations of the Bible, stories, folk sayings, and prayers. The Talmud’s aggadic traditions often echo conversations with the surrounding cultures of the Persians, Eastern Christians, Manichaeans, Mandaeans, and the ancient Babylonians, and others. The essays in this volume analyze Bavli aggada to reveal this rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world. Features: A detailed analysis of the different conceptions of martyrdom in the Talmud as opposed to the Eastern Christian martyr accounts Illustration of the complex ways rabbinic Judaism absorbed Christian and Zoroastrian theological ideas Demonstration of the presence of Persian-Zoroastrian royal and mythological motifs in talmudic sources
Charity in Rabbinic Judaism
Author | : Alyssa M. Gray |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2019-05-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429895906 |
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Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, varied, and even conflicting ideas, as the multiplicity must be recognized and allowed expression. Topics include the significance of the rabbis’ use of the biblical word "tzedaqah" as charity, the coexistence of the idea that God is the ultimate recipient of tzedaqah along with rabbinic ambivalence about that idea, redemptive almsgiving, and the reward for charity of retention or increase in wealth. Rabbinic literature’s preference for "teshuvah" (repentance) over tzedeqah to atone for sin is also closely examined. Throughout, close attention is paid to chronological differences in these ideas, and to differences between the rabbinic compilations of the land of Israel and the Babylonian Talmud. The book extensively analyzes the various ways the Babylonian Talmud especially tends to put limits on the divine element in charity while privileging its human, this-worldly dimensions. This tendency also characterizes the Babylonian Talmud’s treatment of other topics. The book briefly surveys some post-Talmudic developments. As the study fills a gap in existing scholarship on charity and the rabbis, it is an invaluable resource for scholars and clergy interested in charity within comparative religion, history, and religion.
On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer
Author | : Yehuda Septimus |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161534212 |
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The English term "prayer" is usually understood as communication with God or the gods. Scholars of Jewish ritual until now have accepted this characterization and applied it to Jewish tefillah. Does rabbinic prayer indeed necessarily entail second-person address to God, as many scholars of rabbinic prayer to this point have presumed? In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmudic prayer - ritual speech with addressees other than God. The book represents a fresh look at the possible range of performances undertaken by talmudic ritual prayer. Moreover, it places that range of performances into the historical context of the rapid emergence of prayer as the centerpiece of Jewish worship in the first half of the first millennium CE.
Jews Gentiles and Other Animals
Author | : Mira Wasserman |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812249200 |
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In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human
Extra and Non Documentary Writing in the Canon of Formative Judaism Vol 3
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publsiher | : Global Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1586841130 |
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Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.