Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash PDF
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Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash Traininginrhetoric–theartofpersuasion–formedthebasisofeduca- tionintheRomanEmpire.Theclassicalintellectualworldcenteredon thedebatebetweenphilosophers,whoboastedknowledgeofobjective reality,andsophists,whocoulddebatebothsidesofanyissueandwho attracted large audiences and paying students. The roles of the Tal- mudic rabbis as public orators, teachers, and jurists parallel those of Romanrhetors.Rabbinicliteratureadoptedandadaptedvariousaspects oftheclassicalrhetoricaltradition,asisdemonstratedintheTalmudic penchant for arguing both sides of hypothetical cases, the midrashic hermeneutical methods, and the structure of synagogue sermons. At the same time, the rabbis also resisted the extreme epistemological relativismofthesophists,asisevidentintheirrestraintontheoretical argumentation,theirdepictionofrabbinicanddivinecourtprocedure, andtheircommitmenttothebiblicalprophetictradition.RichardHid- arydemonstrateshowtherabbissucceededinnavigatinganovelpath betweenPlatonictruthandrhetoricalrelativism. Richard Hidary received a PhD from New York University and is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University where he teachescoursesinSecondTempleJewishhistory,DeadSeaScrolls,and rabbinicliterature inits culturalcontext. He istheauthor ofDispute fortheSakeofHeaven:LegalPluralismintheTalmud()andhis articles appear in AJS Review, Conversations, Dead Sea Discoveries, DinéIsrael,EncyclopaediaJudaica,EncyclopediaoftheBibleandIts Reception, The Jewish Review of Books, Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal, and Okimta. He has been a fellow at Cardozo Law School’s Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, an affiliate scholarattheTikvahCenterandaStarrfellowatHarvardUniversity’s CenterforJewishStudies. Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash Richard Hidary YeshivaUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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Tomy parents, David and Aimée Hidary Contents PrefaceandAcknowledgments pageix TranslationsandAbbreviations xi Introduction TheSecondSophistic SchoolsofRhetoric:FromGazatotheGalileeandfrom AntiochtoElusa RabbinicAttitudestoGreekLanguageandWisdom PreviousScholarshipandMethodology PhilosophyandRhetoric,TruthandLanguage OnRhetoricalArrangement OutlineoftheBook RabbisasOrators:TheSettingandStructure ofRabbinicHomilies TheSettingofRabbinicDeclamation:TheSabbath Sermon TheStructureofRabbinicDeclamation:The ProemForm TheYelamdenuForm ThePassoverHaggadah Conclusion RabbisasInstructors:Rhetorical ArrangementandReasoninginthe Yerushalmi TheSettingofRabbinicInstruction RabbanGamaliel’sNonconformity Source-CriticalAnalysis RhetoricalAnalysis Conclusion TheAgonisticBavli:Greco-RomanRhetoric inSasanianPersia Greco-RomanRhetoricinSasanianPersia vii viii Contents MustaFatherFeedHisDaughter? ReadingFourPortionsinSecondAdar LeavenOwnedonPassover FurtherExamples ProgymnasmataandControversiaein RabbinicLiterature Progymnasmata ControversiaeandHypotheticals ControversiaeandtheTaShemaForm RabbinicPaideia TalmudicTopoi:Rhetoricandthe HermeneuticalMethodsofMidrash MidrashicHermeneuticsasRhetoricalTopoi MidrashicHermeneuticsasAnti-SectarianPolemics TheSkepticalPushback Qalva-homer _ GezerahShavah Conclusion TheRoleofLawyersinRomanandRabbinic Courts AdversarialandInquisitorialCourts TheRomanCourtSystem TheRabbinicCourtSystem Conclusion WhyAreThereLawyersinHeaven? HeavenlyAdvocatesintheBibleandSecondTemple Literature HeavenlyAdvocatesinRabbinicLiterature Plato’sHeavenlyCourt Conclusion:RabbinicversusChristian ApproachestoRhetoric TheRabbisandClassicalRhetoric ChristianityandClassicalRhetoric Forty-NineWays:OnTruthandInterpretation Bibliography IndexofSources IndexofNamesandSubjects
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