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An edition of Socrates and the fat rabbis (2009)

Socrates and the fat rabbis

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An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode.

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The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
408

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Talmud, The Comic, Criticism, interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Realismus, Dialogues (Plato), Babylonischer Talmud, Talmud Bavli, Idealismus, Plato, Comic, the

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Cover of: Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
2012, University of Chicago Press
in English
Cover of: Socrates and the fat rabbis
Socrates and the fat rabbis
2009, The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas
In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction
"Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue
"Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical
Reading "The Gorgias"
Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud
"Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud
Icaromeʻir: Rabbi Meʻir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire
"The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue
A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium
Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
184
Library of Congress
B398.C63 B69 2009, B398.C63B69 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
408

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OL23202816M
ISBN 10
0226069168
ISBN 13
9780226069166
LCCN
2009013814
OCLC/WorldCat
317923001
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7096845

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OL15197311W

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