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Rabbis and classical rhetoric sophistic education and oratory in the Talmud and Midrash
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Rabbis and classical rhetoric [electronic resource] : sophistic education and oratory in the Talmud and Midrash / Richard Hidary.
ISBN
9781316822722 (electronic bk.)
1316822729 (electronic bk.)
9781107177406
1107177405
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 335 pages.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2024
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction
The Second Sophistic
Schools of Rhetoric: From Gaza to the Galilee and from Antioch to Elusa
Rabbinic Attitudes to Greek Language and Wisdom
Previous Scholarship and Methodology
Philosophy and Rhetoric, Truth and Language
On Rhetorical Arrangement
Outline of the Book
1. Rabbis as Orators: The Setting and Structure of Rabbinic Homilies
The Setting of Rabbinic Declamation: The Sabbath Sermon
The Structure of Rabbinic Declamation: The Proem Form
The Yelamdenu Form
The Passover Haggadah
Conclusion
2. Rabbis as Instructors: Rhetorical Arrangement and Reasoning in the Yerushalmi
The Setting of Rabbinic Instruction
Rabban Gamaliel's Nonconformity
Source-Critical Analysis
Rhetorical Analysis
Conclusion
3. The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia
Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia
Must a Father Feed His Daughter?
Reading Four Portions in Second Adar
Leaven Owned on Passover
Further Examples
4. Progymnasmata and Controversiae in Rabbinic Literature
Progymnasmata
Controversiae and Hypotheticals
Controversiae and the Ta Shema Form
Rabbinic Paideia
5. Talmudic Topoi: Rhetoric and the Hermeneutical Methods of Midrash
Midrashic Hermeneutics as Rhetorical Topoi
Midrashic Hermeneutics as Anti-Sectarian Polemics
The Skeptical Pushback
Qal va-homer
Gezerah Shavah
Conclusion
6. The Role of Lawyers in Roman and Rabbinic Courts
Adversarial and Inquisitorial Courts
The Roman Court System
The Rabbinic Court System
Conclusion
7. Why Are There Lawyers in Heaven?
Heavenly Advocates in the Bible and Second Temple Literature
Heavenly Advocates in Rabbinic Literature
Plato's Heavenly Court
Conclusion: Rabbinic versus Christian Approaches to Rhetoric
The Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric
Christianity and Classical Rhetoric
Forty-Nine Ways: On Truth and Interpretation.
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