Tradition And The Formation Of The Talmud

Author : Moulie Vidas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691170862

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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud by Moulie Vidas Pdf

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception. Both this self-conception and these structural features were part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character.

Author : David Weiss Halivni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199739882

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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni Pdf

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein offers a translation from the Hebrew of The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni. Halivni's work is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian Talmud. Halivni presents the summation of a lifetime of scholarship and the conclusions of his multivolume Talmudic commentary, Sources and Traditions (Meqorot umesorot). Arguing against the traditional view that the Talmud was composed c. 450 CE by the last of the named sages in the Talmud, the Amoraim, Halivni proposes that its formation took place over a much longer period of time, not reaching its final form until about 750 CE. The Talmud consists of many literary strata or layers, with later layers constantly commenting upon and reinterpreting earlier layers. The later layers differ qualitatively from the earlier layers, and were composed by anonymous sages whom Halivni calls Stammaim. These sages were the true author-editors of the Talmud, who reconstructed the reasons underpinning earlier rulings, created the dialectical argumentation characteristic of the Talmud, and formulated the literary units that make up the Talmudic text. Halivni also discusses the history and development of rabbinic tradition from the Mishnah through the post-Talmud legal codes, the types of dialectical analysis found in the different rabbinic works, and the roles of reciters, transmitters, compilers, and editors in the composition of the Talmud. This volume contains an introduction and annotations by Jeffrey Rubenstein.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004508958

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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Ari Bergmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110709964

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The Formation of the Talmud by Ari Bergmann Pdf

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis beginning in the fourth century and ending by the sixth century. Halevy's model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the Orthodox political body in whose founding he played a leading role. Foreword by Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of How Do We Know This? Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism, among other works.

Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Talmud
ISBN : CUB:U183034032982

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The History of the Talmud by Michael Levi Rodkinson Pdf

Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Talmud
ISBN : MINN:31951002004101Z

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The history of the Talmud from the time of the formation, about 200 B.C., up to the present time by Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus Pdf

Author : Isaac Unterman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Talmud
ISBN : OSU:32435012284691

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The Talmud by Isaac Unterman Pdf

Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D013629218

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The history of the Talmud from the time of its formation, about 200 B .C., up to the present time by Michael Levi Rodkinson Pdf

Author : Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889207264

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The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context by Jack N. Lightstone Pdf

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.

Author : Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874413443

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The Judaic Tradition by Nahum Norbert Glatzer Pdf

A sourcebook of post-biblical Jewish literature from the Second Commonwealth to modern times.

Author : Ari Bergmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110709834

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The Formation of the Talmud by Ari Bergmann Pdf

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis beginning in the fourth century and ending by the sixth century. Halevy's model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the Orthodox political body in whose founding he played a leading role. Foreword by Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of How Do We Know This? Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism, among other works.

Author : Isidor Kalisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Cabala
ISBN : NLI:2060443-10

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ספר יצירה by Isidor Kalisch Pdf

Author : David C. Kraemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108661768

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A History of the Talmud by David C. Kraemer Pdf

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it.

Author : Yishai Kiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107155510

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Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud by Yishai Kiel Pdf

This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.

Author : Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert,Martin S. Jaffee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827423

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The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert,Martin S. Jaffee Pdf

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.