A dispute for heaven's sake
Maḥloqet l"šem šamayim is the topic of m"Abot 5:17. Medieval interpreters understood mahloqet as a "dispute". Modern scholars, following Biblical Hebrew, have proposed "group" as the original definition, with support from one of the oldest commentaries to m"Abot. O...
| Published in: | The journal of Jewish studies |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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The journal of Jewish studies
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism TF Early Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew literature
B Hebrew Manuscripts B Rabbinic Judaism B Mishnah B Middle Ages B Scholars B Talmud |
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| Summary: | Maḥloqet l"šem šamayim is the topic of m"Abot 5:17. Medieval interpreters understood mahloqet as a "dispute". Modern scholars, following Biblical Hebrew, have proposed "group" as the original definition, with support from one of the oldest commentaries to m"Abot. Others opposed this interpretation as irreconcilable with the Mishnah"s examples and proposed alternate intermediate interpretations. A diachronic analysis of manuscript textual witnesses and of parallels in m"Abot 4:11 and Abot R. Nat. suggests that "group" was the definition in an abbreviated early Mishnah, which split following the linguistic development of the term mahloqet. That kernel was supplemented with examples in order to clarify the new meaning, "dispute", as was the parallel to m"Abot 4:11 in Abot R. Nat B 46, which preserves the older meaning by substituting the term k"nesiya. An appendix describes the colourful history of an original later interpretation deliberately misattributed to R. Jonah of Girona by the printer. |
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| ISSN: | 0022-2097 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18647/3260/JJS-2016 |