RT Article
T1 Can Halakhic Texts Talk History?
JF AJS review
VO 3
SP 153
OP 196
A1 Solovets'iḳ, Ḥayim 1937-
LA English
YR 1978
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777506581
AB Not how halakhic texts tell stories about other things, but how they tell stories about themselves is our concern here. Confronting us is not the problem of extracting evidence regarding trade or communal organization from law, but the question of how one cracks the colorless and highly impersonal mold into which the thought of the medieval period was cast to reveal a world of individuality, development, and ambivalence. Can the fragmentary and recalcitrant halakhic texts be made to talk history?
DO 10.1017/S0364009400000349