The Babylonian Talmud and late antique book culture
In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the rulings and stories we find in the Talmud were passed on from one generation to the next, ea...
| Summary: | In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the rulings and stories we find in the Talmud were passed on from one generation to the next, each generation adding their opinions and interpretations of a given subject. Yet, such an oral formation process is unheard of in late antiquity. Moreover, the model exoticizes the Talmud and disregards the intellectual world of Sassanid Persia. Rather than taking the Talmud's discursive structure as a sign for orality, Amsler interrogates the intellectual and material prerequisites of composers of such complex works, and their education and methods of large-scale data management. She also traces and highlights the marks that their working methods inevitably left in the text. Detailing how intellectual innovation was generated, Amsler's book also sheds new light on the content of the Talmud. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. In diesem Buch untersucht Monika Amsler die historischen Kontexte der Entstehung des Babylonischen Talmuds, um herauszufinden, ob er das Ergebnis mündlicher Überlieferung war. Wissenschaftler gehen davon aus, dass die im Talmud gefundenen Urteile und Geschichten von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wurden und jede Generation ihre eigenen Meinungen und Interpretationen zu einem bestimmten Thema hinzufügte. Ein solcher mündlicher Entstehungsprozess ist in der Spätantike jedoch unbekannt. Zudem exotisiert dieses Modell den Talmud und lässt die intellektuelle Welt des sassanidischen Persiens außer Acht. Anstatt die diskursive Struktur des Talmuds als Zeichen für Mündlichkeit zu interpretieren, untersucht Amsler die intellektuellen und materiellen Voraussetzungen der Verfasser solch komplexer Werke sowie ihre Ausbildung und ihre Methoden des umfangreichen Datenmanagements. Sie verfolgt und beleuchtet zudem die Spuren, die ihre Arbeitsmethoden unweigerlich im Text hinterlassen haben. Indem Amslers Buch detailliert beschreibt, wie intellektuelle Innovation entstand, wirft sie auch ein neues Licht auf den Inhalt des Talmuds. [Mit KI übersetzt] "Describes how we should imagine the intellectual and physical formation of the text in the 6th century CE. This is achieved by way of comparison with other more or less contemporary books, thereby describing the work as a product of its own time rather than as its authors aiming at what the Talmud ultimately became: the basis of orthodox Judaism"-- |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Mar 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 280 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-29734-9 978-1-009-29733-2 978-1-009-29732-5 |
| Access: | Open Access. |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009297349 |
