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Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Moulie Vidas
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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. Both this self-conception and these structural features were ... Read more
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. Both this self-conception and these structural features were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170862
SKU
V9780691170862
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About Moulie Vidas
Moulie Vidas is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University.
Reviews for Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies Vidas's book exemplifies the best possibilities of contemporary Talmud scholarship
a foretaste, in just those moments when it upsets received wisdom about the Talmud, of the next step in the ancient dance of new and old. ... Read more
a foretaste, in just those moments when it upsets received wisdom about the Talmud, of the next step in the ancient dance of new and old. ... Read more