RT Book
T1 Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
A1 Vidas, Moulie 1983-
LA English
PP Princeton Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1658650662
AB 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.
OP 239
NO Based on a thesis (Ph. D) Princeton University, 2009
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BM501
SN 978-1-4008-5047-1
SN 978-1-306-53848-0
SN 1-306-53848-3
K1 Religion : Judaism : General
K1 Talmud : History
K1 Jewish Law : Interpretation and construction
K1 Jewish Law
K1 Talmud
K1 RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud
K1 Amoraic tradition
K1 Babylonian Talmud
K1 Bava Qamma
K1 Christian literature
K1 Christian sources
K1 Christianity
K1 Christians
K1 Hekhalot literature
K1 Hekhalot tradition
K1 Israel
K1 Jewish culture
K1 Jewish genealogy
K1 Jewish history
K1 Jewish people
K1 Jewish tradition
K1 Jews
K1 Judaism
K1 Mesopotamia
K1 Oral Torah
K1 Palestinian Talmud
K1 Rav Yehuda
K1 Sar ha-Torah narrative
K1 Scripture
K1 Torah study
K1 Written Torah
K1 Zoroastrian literature
K1 Zoroastrian ritual
K1 Zoroastrian sources
K1 anonymous layer
K1 apodictic rulings
DO 10.1515/9781400850471