RT Article
T1 Writing the Talmud Anew: Shlomo Sirilio's Renaissance Edition of the Jerusalem Talmud
JF The Jewish quarterly review
VO 113
IS 3
SP 368
OP 393
A1 Mayer, Yakov Z.
LA English
PB Penn Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1856620077
AB 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.
K1 Early Modern History
K1 Mishnah
K1 Talmud
K1 print culture
K1 Renaissance
K1 Rabbinic Literature
K1 Sixteenth Century
K1 Palestinian Talmud
K1 Talmud Yerushalmi
K1 Safed
K1 Sirilio
DO 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904504