“In the west, they laughed at him:” The mocking realists of the Babylonian Talmud
In the present article I examine the rhetorical function of the phrase “in the west [the Land of Israel], they laughed at him/it” found in dialectical halakhic contexts in the Babylonian Talmud. I argue that the literary motif of “mocking westerners” allows Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to v...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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Journal of law, religion and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-167 |
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Realism
nominalism
interpretation
reflexivity
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Volltext (Verlag) |