Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric

Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric

Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash

Cambridge University Press

12/2017

344

Dura

Inglês

9781107177406

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction; 1. Rabbis as orators: the setting and structure of rabbinic homilies; 2. Rabbis as instructors: rhetorical arrangement and reasoning in the Yerushalmi; 3. The agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman rhetoric in Sasanian Persia; 4. Progymnasmata and controversiae in rabbinic literature; 5. Talmudic topoi: rhetoric and the hermeneutical methods of Midrash; 6. The role of lawyers in Roman and rabbinic courts; 7. Why are there lawyers in heaven?; Conclusion: rabbinic versus Christian approaches to rhetoric.
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