The Components of the Rabbinic Documents, from the Whole to the Parts


Book Description

The winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.










The Reader's Guide to the Talmud


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This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) answers basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing? Turning to questions of modes of thought, the account proceeds to address the intellectual character of the Bavli and in particular the character and uses of its dialectics. Finally, questions of substance come to the fore: how does the Talmud relate to the Torah? and how does tradition enter in? These basic questions of rhetoric, topic, and logic that anyone approaching the text will raise are dealt with clearly and authoritatively.




The Documentary Form-history of Rabbinic Literature: The documentary forms of the Mishnah


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Completes Neusner's description of the formal traits of canonical writings of Rabbinic Judaism. The first volume focuses on the Mishnah, the most formalized of all Rabbinic writings, identifying the paradigms that define the document's literary protocol. The second volume considers the successor documents of the canon and show how from the Mishnah forward, the forms of the later documents relate to those of the earlier ones. Assumes no Hebrew. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
















Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash


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This sourcebook collects and classifies how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. With extensive translation and documentation, Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash uses the case of Jeremiah in the Rabbinic canon of the formative age to examine the Rabbinic documents response to the prophetic ones in terms of how they select, explain, and utilize the language of Scripture.