Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud (eBook)

Moulie Vidas (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400850471 (ISBN)

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Moulie Vidas is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abaye • Abbahu • Admonition • Alterity • American Council of Learned Societies • Amoraic tradition • Amoraim • Ancient Judaism (book) • Anecdote • anonymous layer • apodictic rulings • arbitrariness • attributed rulings • authority • Avestan • Babylonian Talmud • Baraita • bava • Bava Qamma • Career • Christian • Christianity • Christianity and Judaism • Christian Literature • Christians • Christian sources • Christine Hayes • Composition • Daniel Boyarin • Dialectic • dichotomy • Discontinuity • Elijah • Exegesis • Exilarch • Gemara • genealogical knowledge • genealogical tradition • Genizah • geonim • God • Hekhalot literature • Hekhalot tradition • Ideology • Intellectual history • ISAAC • Israel • Jerusalem Talmud • Jesus in the Talmud • Jewish Culture • Jewish genealogy • Jewish History • Jewish people • Jewish Studies • Jewish Tradition • Jews • Judaism • Karaite Judaism • Late Antiquity • layered structure • levite • Leviticus Rabbah • literary design • Literature • Liturgy • Louis Ginzberg • Mamzer • Manichaeism • Mekhilta • memorization • Merkabah mysticism • Mesopotamia • Midrash • Mishnah • Moses • Ms. • mystical Jewish sources • Naphtali • Narration • narrative • Nehardea • orality • Oral Torah • Oral tradition • Palestinian Talmud • Polemic • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Prooftext • Psalms • R. • Rabbi • Rabbi Akiva • rabbinic culture • rabbinic literature • Rabbis • Rashi • Rav • Rav Ashi • Rav Huna • Rav Papa • Rav Yehuda • recitation • Redaction • Religion • Religious Studies • religious text • Responsa • Sacred Texts • Sar ha-Torah narrative • Saul Lieberman • Scholarship • Scripture • S. (Dorst novel) • Self-Definition • self-presentation • Shabbat • Shamma • Shekhinah • Sifre • Soferim (Talmud) • Stam • Stoning • Suggestion • sugya • sugyot • Superiority (short story) • Talmud • Talmud Torah • tanna'im • Tannaim • textuality • The Other Hand • Torah • Torah reading • Torah study • Tosefta • Tractate • Tradition • World to come • Writing • Written Torah • Yohanan • Zoroastrianism • Zoroastrian literature • Zoroastrian ritual • Zoroastrian sources
• ISBN-13: 9781400850471 / 9781400850471