Writing the Talmud Anew: Shlomo Sirilio's Renaissance Edition of the Jerusalem Talmud
Shlomo Sirilio, a resident of sixteenth-century Safed, created a radical adaptation of the Jerusalem Talmud based on its 1523 editio princeps. He sweepingly adapted the talmudic text, expanded it with medieval materials, and added novel material, based on his creative scholarly intuition. This essay...
| Published in: | The Jewish quarterly review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2023
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2023, Volume: 113, Issue: 3, Pages: 368-393 |
| Further subjects: | B
Renaissance
B Palestinian Talmud B print culture B Sixteenth Century B Talmud Yerushalmi B Mishnah B Safed B Early Modern History B Sirilio B Talmud B Rabbinic Literature |
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| Summary: | Shlomo Sirilio, a resident of sixteenth-century Safed, created a radical adaptation of the Jerusalem Talmud based on its 1523 editio princeps. He sweepingly adapted the talmudic text, expanded it with medieval materials, and added novel material, based on his creative scholarly intuition. This essay describes Sirilio's scholarly conception and distinguishes between the medieval motifs and the innovative Renaissance ideas that shaped his work. It argues that such a creative approach could not have been created in the centers of humanistic culture, but only in the peripheral locale of Safed, where humanistic ideas could be developed without polemical undertones. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904504 |