The mind of the Talmud : an intellectual history of the Bavli / David Kraemer.

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Kraemer, David Charles

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780198022831
0198022832

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mind of the Talmud.DDC classification:

296.1/2506 20

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BM501 .K72 1990eb

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Contents:

Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. On Writing an Intellectual History of the Bavli; 2. A History of Amoraic Literary Expression; 3. The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation; 4. The Bavli Considered as a Whole; 5. The Meaning of Argumentation; 6. The Bavli on "Truth"; 7. The Bavli in Comparative Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index to Primary Rabbinic Sources.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and indexes.

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.

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