Talmudic Stories

Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7754-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council

How should we understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud? Where do they come from? Why are they in the Talmud? How do they relate to Talmudic law? In Talmudic Stories, Jeffrey Rubenstein deepens our appreciation for the complexity of these texts by drawing attention to the literary aspects and cultural contexts that are essential to understanding their narrative art, meanings, and importance. Focusing on six famous stories of the Babylonian Talmud and discussing many others in relation to these, Rubenstein's analysis illuminates the ways in which the rabbis used narratives to grapple with fundamental tensions of their culture. The book also features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubenstein, Jeffrey L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Torah, Shame, and "The Oven of Akhnai" (Bava Mesia 59a-59b)
2. Elisha ben Abuya: Torah and the Sinful Sage (Hagiga 15a-15b)
3. Torah and the Mundane Life: The Education of R. Shimon bar Yohai (Shabbat 33b-34a)
4. Rabbinic Authority and the Destruction of Jerusalem (Gittin 55b-56b)
5. Torah, Lineage, and the Academic Hierarchy (Horayot 13b-14a)
6. Torah, Gentiles, and Eschatology (Avoda Zara 2a-3b)
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rubenstein, Jeffrey L.
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein is a professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods, Rabbinic Stories, and Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture, the last available from Johns Hopkins.

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein is an associate professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods; Rabbinic Stories; and the forthcoming The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, which will also be published by Johns Hopkins.