Richard Hidary

Gebundenes Buch

Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric

Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash

Beschreibung

Shows the unique perspective of Talmudic rabbis as they navigate between platonic objective truth and the realm of rhetorical argumentation.

Autor

Richard Hidary received a Ph.D. from New York University and is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University where he teaches courses in Second Temple Jewish history, Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic literature in its cultural context. He is the author of Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud (2010) and his articles appear in Association for Jewish Studies Review, Conversations, Dead Sea Discoveries, Dine Israel, Encyclopedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Jewish Studies an Internet Journal, and Okimta. He has been a fellow at Cardozo Law School's Center for Jewish Law and Legal Theory, an affiliate scholar at The Tikvah Center and a Starr fellow at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781107177406
• ISBN-10: 1107177405
• Artikelnr.: 48330795