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Studies in Judaism
Contents
Preface
1. How Many Languages Does the Talmud Need?
i. Language as Taxonomy
ii. The Rules for Using Hebrew and Aramaic in the Talmud of Babylonia
iii. Illustrations
iv. Prior Explanations of the Same Facts
2. Translating Rabbinic Documents
i. The Importance of an Analytical Reference System
ii. An Undifferentiated Composite of the Bavli
iii. Form-Analytical Translation: Why It is Necessary
3. The Talmud’s Primary Discourse
i. How Shall We Define the Bavli’s Mishnah-Commentary?
ii. Traits of the Bavli’s Commentary to the Mishnah
iii. The Bavli’s Primary Discourse
iv. Rhetorical Paradigms. Scriptural Foundations of the Laws of the Mishnah
v. Authorities behind the Laws of the Mishnah
vi. Meanings of Words and Phrases
vii. Text-Criticism. The Issue of Repetition
viii. Conflict of Principles Implicit in the Mishnah’s Rules
ix. Execution of the Law of the Mishnah
x. The Operative Consideration behind the Law of the Mishnah
xi. The Implications, for the Law in General, of the Mishnah’s Particular Formulation
xii. Settling the Point Subject to Dispute in the Mishnah
xiii. Theological Implications
4. Who Speaks through the Bavli?
i. Saying the Same Thing about Many Things
ii. The Talmud’s One Voice
iii. The Talmud’s Rules of Composition
iv. Types of Forms and the Order of Types of Forms: Exegesis of the Mishnah
v. Exegesis of the Mishnah
vi. Speculation and Abstract Thought on Law
vii. Scripture
viii. From Mishnah-Exegesis to Legal Speculation
ix. The Bavli’s Formal Coherence
5. The Talmud’s Massive Miscellanies
i. What is a Massive Miscellany?
ii. The Composition and the Composite
iii. The Bavli’s Massive Miscellanies: The Problem of Agglutinative Discourse
iv. Traits of Agglutinative Discourse
v. A Case of Agglutinative Discourse: Mishnah Berakhot 1:1
6. The Law behind the Laws
i. From Many Cases, One Principle
ii. The Law Behind the Laws: A Case in Point
iii. The Law Behind the Laws: Is It Permitted to take the Law into One’s Own Hands?
iv. The Survey of Ten of the Nineteen Tractates
v. A Distinct Source or a Component of a Tradition?
1. Sustained and systematic or Subordinate and Episodic?
2. Another Kind of Mishnah-Commentary or a Mere Adumbration of Another Way of Thinking about the Contents of the Mishnah?
vi. Describing the Bavli
vii. Is the Bavli Much More than a Mishnah-Commentary?
viii. Is the Bavli a Writing that is Systematic or (Merely) Agglutinative?
ix. How Rich a Corpus of Sources in the Bavli’s Traditions?
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