“Haven't I told you not to take yourself outside of the law?”: Rabbi Yirmiyah and the characterization of a scholastic

The paper looks at several episodes in which R. Yirmiyah is rebuked for questions that are portrayed as epistemologically destabilizing to the rabbinic legal project. I argue that R. Yirmiyah is portrayed as a caricature of late rabbinic scholastic thought, and that his characterization enables the...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Wolf, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2020]
In: AJS review
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 384-410
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmud / Rabbi (Motif) / Rabbi / Halacha / Legislation (Motif) / Fiction
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
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