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Reading the Rabbis - The Talmud as Literature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,101
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Reading the Rabbis - The Talmud as Literature (Hardcover): David Kraemer

Reading the Rabbis - The Talmud as Literature (Hardcover)

David Kraemer

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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. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers 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 by developing a method for reading the Talmud as literature. He draws on the tools developed in the study of other literatures, particularly rhetorical and reader-response criticisms, to unearth previously unnoticed levels of meaning. The result is that readers will gain a new understanding of the complexity of Rabbinic Judaism, and a new model of rabbinic piety.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1996
First published: August 1996
Authors: David Kraemer (Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics)
Dimensions: 218 x 147 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509623-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
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LSN: 0-19-509623-1
Barcode: 9780195096231

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