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Socrates & the Fat Rabbis Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Daniel Boyarin

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What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.An innovative advancement in rabbinic studies, as well as a bold and controversial new way of reading Plato, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on thought and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.

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  • Title Socrates & the Fat Rabbis
  • Author Daniel Boyarin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
  • Publication date 2009-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226069166 / 0226069168
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Religion - Judaism
  • Library of Congress subjects Plato, Comic, The
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009013814
  • Dewey Decimal Code 184

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/11/2009, Page 22

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Daniel Boyarinis professor of Talmudic culture and holds the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity.

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