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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Socrates & the fat rabbis
  title info:
    title: Socrates and the fat rabbis
  name:
    name part: Boyarin, Daniel.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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 -- Icaromeʼir : Rabbi Meʼir'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.
  note: Daniel Boyarin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Talmud
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Comic, The
  classification: B398.C63 B69 2009
  classification: 184
  identifier: 9780226069166 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226069168 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009013814
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 090401
    record change date: 20151113115731.0
    record identifier: in00002528845