Socratic Torah : non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture /
This book investigates the self-perception and self-fashioning of the rabbis of Late Antiquity within a non-Jewish social and intellectual world. Rabbinic depictions of non-Jews interacting with rabbis are a window into how the rabbis viewed both non-Jews and themselves. Despite the highly internal...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book investigates the self-perception and self-fashioning of the rabbis of Late Antiquity within a non-Jewish social and intellectual world. Rabbinic depictions of non-Jews interacting with rabbis are a window into how the rabbis viewed both non-Jews and themselves. Despite the highly internal and self-referential nature of rabbinic Torah study, some rabbis indeed imagined the involvement of non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture as an enriching aspect of the rabbis' own learning and teaching. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0199345791 9780199345793 0199934576 9780199934577 |