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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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.