What is good, and what God demands : normative structures in Tannaitic literature /
The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of tannaitic normativity....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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Colección: | Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;
v. 144. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Categorical Oppositions; Chapter Two Teleological Mitzvah; Chapter Three Scripture and World: Between the Schools of R. Akiva and R. Ishmael; Chapter Four The Normative Realm as Mitzvah; Chapter Five "One Need Not Scruple": Law as Intrusion; Chapter Six Cautious Actors; Chapter Seven Eager Observance; Chapter Eight Exemplarity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Sources.