Author

Publication

2014 - Princeton University Press

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780691154862
  • Open LibraryOL26179680M

Classifications

  • LCCBM501.V53 2014
  • LCCBM501 .V53 2014

Description

Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud innovatively interpreted and changed the older traditions on which they drew. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that the ancient rabbis were committed to maintaining continuity with the past. Moulie Vidas argues on the contrary that structural features of the Talmud were designed to produce a discontinuity with tradition, and that this discontinuity was part and parcel of the rabbis' self-conception.

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Other Editions

  • Tradition and the Formation of the TalmudPrinceton University Press2014-01-01

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