It's All in the Name
The "anonymous voice" in the Babylonian Talmud has troubled scholars and rabbis throughout the ages. However, while anonymity has been discussed from a historical perspective, the question has barely been addressed from a literary point of view. This article examines the narrator's an...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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AJS review
Jahr: 2024, Band: 48, Heft: 1, Seiten: 173-200 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Judentum
/ Babylonischer Talmud
/ Gesetz (Theologie)
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Rosenfeld, Eliahu
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| Zusammenfassung: | The "anonymous voice" in the Babylonian Talmud has troubled scholars and rabbis throughout the ages. However, while anonymity has been discussed from a historical perspective, the question has barely been addressed from a literary point of view. This article examines the narrator's anonymity from a narratological perspective while attempting to understand the effect that anonymity has on the textual dynamics of talmudic halakhic discussions. Through a close examination of the use of names within these discussions, I show that names enable citation, contradiction, and reference to other sayings, ultimately resulting in a "halakhic biography" of the scholar that becomes part of the tradition. In contrast, anonymous sayings cannot be classified, attributed, or cited, thus yielding a narrator who has no biography, and who cannot be confronted with previous sayings, thus providing the discussion with the narrative foundation that enables each discussion to be self-contained. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ajs.2024.a926062 |