Between philology and Foucault: new syntheses in contemporary Mishnah studies
The work of many emerging young rabbinics scholars today, particularly that which is focused on the Mishnah, is animated by a desire to synthesize two distinct approaches to rabbinic texts. One is the traditional philological-historical approach, which traces its roots back to the European Wissensch...
| Autres titres: | Research Article |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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[2008]
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| Dans: |
AJS review
Année: 2008, Volume: 32, Numéro: 2, Pages: 251-262 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Mishnah
/ Philologie
/ Tradition
/ Humanisme
/ Science
/ Relation
/ Synthèse
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| Classifications IxTheo: | BH Judaïsme |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Capital Punishment
B Discourse B Tearing B Literary Criticism B Judaism B Rabbis B Philology B Talmud B Jewish rituals B Jewish History |
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| Résumé: | The work of many emerging young rabbinics scholars today, particularly that which is focused on the Mishnah, is animated by a desire to synthesize two distinct approaches to rabbinic texts. One is the traditional philological-historical approach, which traces its roots back to the European Wissenschaft des Judentums tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In its current form, traditional Talmud criticism is perhaps most associated in Israel with the work of J. N. Epstein, the founder of the Hebrew University Talmud Department and the “father of exact scientific Talmudic inquiry.” While most of Epstein's students proceeded to shape the study of rabbinic literature in the Israeli academy, Saul Lieberman, perhaps his most distinguished disciple, moved to America, where his presence dominated the study of rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in the postwar decades. Traditional Talmud criticism is characterized by a scrupulous attention to manuscripts and textual variants, a systematic use of the findings of Semitic and comparative linguistics, and the use of form and source criticism to determine the history and development of larger textual units. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009408000111 |