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The Mind of the Talmud - An Intellectual History of the Bavli (Hardcover)
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The Mind of the Talmud - An Intellectual History of the Bavli (Hardcover)
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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. By tracing the evolution of the
argumentational style, he describes the distinct eras in the
development of rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia. He then analyzes the
meaning of the disputational form and concludes that the talmudic
form implies the inaccessibility of perfect truth and that on
account of this opinion, the pursuit of truth, in the
characteristic talmudic concern for rabbinic process, becomes the
ultimate act of rabbinic piety.
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