TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidas,Moulie
TI  - Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud
SN  - 9780691154862
AV  - BM501 .V53 2017
U1  - 296.125066 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Religion
KW  - Judaism
KW  - General
KW  - Talmud
KW  - History
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Amoraic tradition
KW  - Babylonian Talmud
KW  - Bava Qamma
KW  - Christian literature
KW  - Christian sources
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christians
KW  - Hekhalot literature
KW  - Hekhalot tradition
KW  - Israel
KW  - Jewish culture
KW  - Jewish genealogy
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - Jewish people
KW  - Jewish tradition
KW  - Jews
KW  - Mesopotamia
KW  - Oral Torah
KW  - Palestinian Talmud
KW  - Rav Yehuda
KW  - Sar ha-Torah narrative
KW  - Scripture
KW  - Torah study
KW  - Written Torah
KW  - Zoroastrian literature
KW  - Zoroastrian ritual
KW  - Zoroastrian sources
KW  - anonymous layer
KW  - apodictic rulings
KW  - attributed rulings
KW  - authority
KW  - composition
KW  - dialectic
KW  - discontinuity
KW  - genealogical knowledge
KW  - genealogical tradition
KW  - intellectual history
KW  - layered structure
KW  - literary design
KW  - liturgy
KW  - mystical Jewish sources
KW  - oral tradition
KW  - rabbinic culture
KW  - rabbis
KW  - recitation
KW  - religious text
KW  - sacred texts
KW  - scholarship
KW  - self-definition
KW  - self-presentation
KW  - stam
KW  - sugya
KW  - sugyot
KW  - tanna'im
KW  - tradition
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; A Note on Style Conventions --; Introduction --; Part I --; Chapter One. The Alterity of Tradition --; Chapter Two. The Division into Layers --; Chapter Three. Composition as Critique --; Part II --; Chapter Four. Scholars, Transmitters, and the Making of talmud --; Chapter Five. The Debate about Recitation --; Chapter Six. Tradition and Vision --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Bibliography --; Source Index --; Subject Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 part of a debate within and beyond the Jewish community about the transmission of tradition.Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud, produced in the rabbinic academies of late ancient Mesopotamia, Vidas analyzes key passages to show how the Talmud's creators contrasted their own voice with that of their predecessors. He also examines Zoroastrian, Christian, and mystical Jewish sources to reconstruct the debates and wide-ranging conversations that shaped the Talmud's literary and intellectual character
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