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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xiv, 388 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226069166 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226069168 (cloth : alk. paper) |