Socrates & the fat rabbis /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Boyarin, Daniel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Plato. > Dialogues. Talmud > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Comic, The.