Description: This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions remain definitive today. Kraemer here examines the characteristic preference for argumentation and process over settled conclusions of the Bavli. By tracing the evolution of the argumentational style, he describes the distinct eras in the development of rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia. He then analyzes the meaning of the disputational form and concludes that the talmudic form implies the inaccessibility of perfect truth and that on account of this opinion, the pursuit of truth, in the characteristic talmudic concern for rabbinicprocess, becomes the ultimate act of rabbinic piety.
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Book Title: The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
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Features: 1st Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mind of the Talmud : an Intellectual History of the Bavli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Judaism / Talmud
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1990
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: David Kraemer
Item Length: 5.9 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 8.9 in
Format: Hardcover
