The Rhetoric Of The Babylonian Talmud Its Social Meaning And Context
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The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud Its Social Meaning and Context
Author | : Jack N. Lightstone |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780889207264 |
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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. Through comparison of the Talmud’s rhetoric with that of other, earlier rabbinic documents and by placing the editing of the Talmud against the backdrop of the social and political situation of Rabbinism in the Late Persian Empire, the book relates the Talmud’s creation and promulgation to a major shift in Rabbinism’s understanding of the social role, “rabbi,” and to the emergence and ascendancy of the talmudic academy (the Yeshiva) as the primary institution of Rabbinism toward the end of Late Antiquity. In its agenda, and methodological and theoretical perspectives, The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud brings together the insights and tools of historical, literary and rhetorical analysis of the New Testament and of early rabbinic literature, on the one hand, and the sociological and anthropological study of religion, on the other.
Law Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud Its Social Meaning and Context
Author | : Jack N. Lightstone,Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:638787235 |
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Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric
Author | : Richard Hidary |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781107177406 |
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Shows the unique perspective of Talmudic rabbis as they navigate between platonic objective truth and the realm of rhetorical argumentation.
The Talmud s Theological Language Game
Author | : Eugene B. Borowitz |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791482018 |
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Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.
The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
Author | : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein,Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature Jeffrey L Rubenstein |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801873881 |
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This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential reading for all students of the Talmud.--Michael Satlow, Brown University "Journal of Jewish Studies"
Society the Sacred and Scripture in Ancient Judaism
Author | : Jack N. Lightstone |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2010-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781554587339 |
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This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman Disapora down to the end of the fourth century of the Christian Era; (3) earliest rabbinic Judaism in the second century C.E> in the land of Israel; (4) Late Antique Talmudic Rabbinism, primarily inn Babylonia, down to the sixth century of the Christian Era. Lightstone attempts not only to describe these perceptions and relationships but also to account for them, to explore why scripture should be thus perceived. His imaginative approach to the challenging descriptive and theoretical tasks is influenced by literary and form-critical methods as well as by the methods and perspectives of social anthropology and sociology of the mind. This unique attempts at revising the perception of the character of scripture should arouse the interest of scholars and students of Ancient Judaism.
Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild
Author | : Jack N. Lightstone |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780889207295 |
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Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins? In order to shed light on the early social formation of the rabbinic guild of masters, Lightstone brings the theoretical and methodological insights of socio-rhetorical analysis to examine Mishnah, the first document authored by the early rabbinic movement and its principal object of study for several centuries. He argues that the enshrinement of Mishnah served to model, via its pervasive rhetoric, the principal authoritative guild expertise that qualified and marked one as a member of the rabbinic guild. Furthermore, he establishes the social and historical venue in late second- and early third-century Galilee. The author concludes that the social formation of the early rabbinic guild coalesced around the institution of the Jewish Patriarchy, for which the early rabbis served as bureaucratic-scribal retainers. He further suggests that the development of both the Patriarchy in the Land of Israel and the social formation of the rabbinic guild may have been spurred by the imposition of Roman-style urbanization in the region over the course of the latter half of the second and beginning of the third century. Lightstone’s approach is informed by the insights and methods of several cognate disciplines, encompassing literary analysis, sociology and anthropology, and history (including, in the last chapter, the history of material culture). The book will be of interest to advanced students in the history of Judaism, rabbinic literature, biblical studies, early Christianity, and the history of religion and culture in the late Roman Near East.
The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture
Author | : Stanley E. Porter,Thomas H. Olbricht |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781850756712 |
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This is the third in a series of conference papers on rhetorical criticism. Held in July 1995 in London, the conference included participants from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Republic of South Africa. Part I is concerned with the past, present and future of rhetorical analysis; Parts II, III and IV are concerned with rhetorical analysis of scriptural texts; and Part V provides a conclusion reflecting on a number of questions raised in Part I. Most of the participants would characterize themselves as advocates of rhetorical criticism; but there were others less convinced that rhetorical criticism is developing as it ought.