| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages) |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Judaism Scriptures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Talmud -- History
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Talmud -- Introductions
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Talmud fast |
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Talmud -- Histoire. ram |
| Subject |
Jewish law -- Interpretation and construction.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
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Jewish law -- Interpretation and construction
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Babylonische Talmoed.
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Amoraïm.
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Droit juif -- Interprétation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Introductions
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198022831 |
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0198022832 |
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