Book Summary
This book seeks to discern how the Talmud transforms isolated facts into cogent and coherent constructions: the forests formed by the Talmud_s trees. Trees serve as facts out of any larger context, whereas _forests_ mean whole paragraphs and larger constructions of though that is coherent in context and in sequence.
Book Details
Book Name | How The Bavli Is Constructed: Identifying The Forests Comprised By The Talmud's Trees: The Case Of Bavli Moed Qatan And Of Bavli Makkot |
Author | Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | University Press Of America (Sep 2009) |
ISBN | 9780761847083 |
Pages | 423 |
Language | English |
Price | 2782 |