Can Halakhic Texts Talk History?

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 m...

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Autor principal: Solovets'iḳ, Ḥayim 1937- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: 1978
En: AJS review
Año: 1978, Volumen: 3, Páginas: 153-196
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Sumario: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?
ISSN:1475-4541
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009400000349