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1 online resource (334 pages) |
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| Summary |
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. |
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Charts; Preface; Abbreviations and Editions; 1 Introduction; 2 Bavli's Structural Formularies; 3 Bavli's Structural Formularies in Comparative Relief; 4 Bavli's Dialectical Formularies; 5 Bavli's Dialectical Formularies in Comparative Relief; 6 Summary and Conclusions: The Social Meaning and Context of Bavli's Rhetoric; Appendix A: A Comparative Analysis of the Distribution of Selected Structural Formulae in Nine Tractates of the Bavli; Appendix B: The Hebrew-Aramaic Texts of b. Avodah Zarah 14b-16a and b. Bekorot 2a-5b; References and Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Talmud -- Criticism, Form. |
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Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History. |
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Talmud -- Critique, interpret́ation, etc. |
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Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Talmud. |
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Rabbinical literature.
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Rabbinical literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Lightstone, Jack N. Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889202382 |
| ISBN |
9780889207264 (electronic book) |
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0889207267 (electronic book) |
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