Reading Talmudic Sources As Arguments

Author : Yuval Blankovsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004430040
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments written by Yuval Blankovsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments: A New Interpretive Approach elucidates the unique characteristics of Talmudic discourse culture. Applying a linguistic approach combined with Quentin Skinner’s philosophy of meaning, the book reveals the function of tradition in Talmudic deliberation.

Author : Leib Moscovitz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161477263
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talmudic Reasoning written by Leib Moscovitz and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of explicit legal concepts and principles in rabbinic literature reflects rabbinic legal thought at its most creative and sophisticated, as many of these concepts and principles deal with abstract, metaphysical entities. In this study Leib Moscovitz systematically surveys the development and impact of abstraction and conceptualization in the various legal corpora of rabbinic literature, illustrating the critical and unique role that conceptualization plays in talmudic reasoning. He demonstrates how the analysis of rabbinic conceptualization can shed light on numerous important aspects of rabbinic scholarship, such as the character and development of rabbinic legal thought, techniques of rabbinic legal exegesis, rabbinic jurisprudence, and various philological and historical issues in rabbinics, such as the chronology of the anonymous stratum of the Babylonian Talmud. Rabbinic conceptualization, though unique in many respects, shares certain features with cognate disciplines, and this study utilizes these disciplines (mainly jurisprudence, cognitive psychology, and philosophy) to illuminate rabbinic conceptualization wherever relevant. The themes addressed in this study include the use of casuistics, generalization, and implicit conceptualization in the earlier strata of rabbinic literature, classification and legal definition, legal fictions, legal explanation, analogy and association, and the development and use of explicit legal concepts and principles in the later strata of rabbinic literature.

Author : Michael Chernick
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081471496X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Papers on the Talmud written by Michael Chernick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the Talmud's history, sources, arguments, and methods, this volume adds the insights of modern Talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented works. Collected here in one volume are essential essays published in the area of Talmudic study by Jacob Neusner, Robert Goldenberg, Louis Ginzberg, and others.

Author : Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204204
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demonic Desires written by Ishay Rosen-Zvi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Demonic Desires, Ishay Rosen-Zvi examines the concept of yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and its evolution in biblical and rabbinic literature. Contrary to existing scholarship, which reads the term under the rubric of destructive sexual desire, Rosen-Zvi contends that in late antiquity the yetzer represents a general tendency toward evil. Rather than the lower bodily part of a human, the rabbinic yetzer is a wicked, sophisticated inciter, attempting to snare humans to sin. The rabbinic yetzer should therefore not be read in the tradition of the Hellenistic quest for control over the lower parts of the psyche, writes Rosen-Zvi, but rather in the tradition of ancient Jewish and Christian demonology. Rosen-Zvi conducts a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the some one hundred and fifty appearances of the evil yetzer in classical rabbinic literature to explore the biblical and postbiblical search for the sources of human sinfulness. By examining the yetzer within a specific demonological tradition, Demonic Desires places the yetzer discourse in the larger context of a move toward psychologization in late antiquity, in which evil—and even demons—became internalized within the human psyche. The book discusses various manifestations of this move in patristic and monastic material, from Clement and Origin to Antony, Athanasius, and Evagrius. It concludes with a consideration of the broader implications of the yetzer discourse in rabbinic anthropology.

Author : Louis Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521263702
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Talmudic Argument written by Louis Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in detail a number of typical lengthy passages with a view to showing how Talmudic reasoning operates and how the Talmud was compiled by its final editors.

Author : David Kraemer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357248
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Rabbis written by David Kraemer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers and students have turned to the Talmud for evidence of rabbinic history, religion, rhetoric, or anthropology; still, few have employed a genuinely literary approach. In Reading the Rabbis, Kraemer attempts to fill this gap. He uses the tools developed in the study of other literatures, particularly rhetorical and reader-response criticisms, to unearth previously unnoticed levels of meaning. His book offers a new understanding of the complexity of Rabbinic Judaism, and a new model of rabbinic piety.

Author : Max K. Strassfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520397398
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans Talmud written by Max K. Strassfeld and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.

Author : Barry W. Holtz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126658
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back To The Sources written by Barry W. Holtz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical, and religious points of view.

Author : משה חיים לוצאטו
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873064958
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ספר דרך תבונות written by משה חיים לוצאטו and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing extensively on examples from the Gemara, this work bridges Talmudic analysis and the principles of logic. With Hebrew and facing English, detailed chapter outlines, indices and charts.

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247248
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveling Homeland written by Daniel Boyarin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Traveling Homeland, Daniel Boyarin makes the case that the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto producing and defining the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity in the form of textual, interpretive communities built around talmudic study.