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The mind of the Talmud : an intellectual history of the Bavli /

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 comprehens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kraemer, David Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. On Writing an Intellectual History of the Bavli; 2. A History of Amoraic Literary Expression; 3. The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation; 4. The Bavli Considered as a Whole; 5. The Meaning of Argumentation; 6. The Bavli on "Truth"; 7. The Bavli in Comparative Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index to Primary Rabbinic Sources.