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- Condition
- Good
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- “Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Pencil markings to pages. Binding solid.”
- Book Title
- Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradi
- ISBN
- 9780812243130
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812243137
ISBN-13
9780812243130
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99397143
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Publication Name
Becoming the People of the Talmud : Oral Torah As Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Judaism / History, Judaism / Talmud, Judaism / General, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Religion
Series
Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2011-002094
Reviews
" Becoming the People of the Talmud offers a unique and highly original contribution to our understanding of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. The book indubitably places Talya Fishman in the vanguard of scholarly research."--Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Talya Fishman's ambitious new study . . . indicates the sweep of the issues that are a significant part of Jewish cultural history from late antiquity through the High Middle Ages.- American Historical Review|9780812243130|, " Becoming the People of the Talmud offers a unique and highly original contribution to our understanding of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. The book indubitably places Talya Fishman in the vanguard of scholarly research."-Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "An indispensable study, whose exemplary exposition of Jewish attitudes toward oral, written, and legal matters may well spark comparisons with other cultures, for Fishman has brilliantly shown that words can produce meaning through their epistemological categorization as oral or written, a categorization that itself remains undetermined by their actual mediatic support."-- Law and History Review, "An indispensable study, whose exemplary exposition of Jewish attitudes toward oral, written, and legal matters may well spark comparisons with other cultures, for Fishman has brilliantly shown that words can produce meaning through their epistemological categorization as oral or written, a categorization that itself remains undetermined by their actual mediatic support."- Law and History Review, "Talya Fishman's ambitious new study . . . indicates the sweep of the issues that are a significant part of Jewish cultural history from late antiquity through the High Middle Ages."-- American Historical Review
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
296.1/2
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1. The Place of Oral Matters in Geonic Culture Chapter 2. Oral Matters among Jews of Qayrawan and al-Andalus: Framing Sefarad Chapter 3. Framing Ashkenaz: Cultural Landmarks of Medieval Northern European Societies Chapter 4. Textualization of North European Rabbinic Culture: The Changing Role of Talmud Chapter 5. Medieval Responses to the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture Chapter 6. Rhineland Pietism and the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Northern Europe Epilogue Glossary Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Talya Fishman explores the impact of the textualization process in medieval Europe on the Babylonian Talmud's roles within Jewish culture., In Becoming the People of the Talmud , Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud--which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later--precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena--the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud--were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life., Becoming the People of the Talmud Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures Talya Fishman Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 2011 "A vital addition to any Jewish studies library in America."-- Jewish Book World " Becoming the People of the Talmud offers a unique and highly original contribution to our understanding of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. The book indubitably places Talya Fishman in the vanguard of scholarly research."--Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem In Becoming the People of the Talmud , Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud--which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later--precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena--the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud--were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life. Talya Fishman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shaking the Pillars of Exile: "Voice of a Fool," an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture . Jewish Culture and Contexts 2011 424 pages 6 x 9 2 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4313-0 Cloth $65.00s 42.50 World Rights Religion Short copy: Talya Fishman explores the roles the Babylonian Talmud played in the textualization of medieval European Jewish culture."
LC Classification Number
BM503.F57 2011
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