Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash

ISBN-13: 9781107177406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 344 str.

Richard Hidary

Opis

Shows the unique perspective of Talmudic rabbis as they navigate between platonic objective truth and the realm of rhetorical argumentation.

Recenzje

'… a piece of fine scholarship. ' Eric Ottenheijm, Journal for the Study of Judaism

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Rabbis as orators: the setting and structure of rabbinic homilies; 2. Rabbis as instructors: rhetorical arrangement and reasoning in the Yerushalmi; 3. The agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman rhetoric in Sasanian Persia; 4. Progymnasmata and controversiae in rabbinic literature; 5. Talmudic topoi: rhetoric and the hermeneutical methods of Midrash; 6. The role of lawyers in Roman and rabbinic courts; 7. Why are there lawyers in heaven?; Conclusion: rabbinic versus Christian approaches to rhetoric.