An edition of Socrates and the fat rabbis
(2009)
Socrates and the fat rabbis
by Daniel Boyarin
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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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Socrates and the fat rabbis
2009, The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226069168 9780226069166
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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