Book Summary
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their unique combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond the typological parallelism between the texts, arguing also for a cultural relationship. In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that these dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin
Book Details
| Book Name | Socrates And The Fat Rabbis |
| Author | Daniel Boyarin |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press (Nov 2009) |
| ISBN | 9780226069166 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1639 |
