“Haven't I told you not to take yourself outside of the law?”: Rabbi Yirmiyah and the characterization of a scholastic
The paper looks at several episodes in which R. Yirmiyah is rebuked for questions that are portrayed as epistemologically destabilizing to the rabbinic legal project. I argue that R. Yirmiyah is portrayed as a caricature of late rabbinic scholastic thought, and that his characterization enables the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2020]
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AJS review
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 384-410 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Talmud
/ Rabbi (Motif)
/ Rabbi
/ Halacha
/ Law (Motif)
/ Fiction
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RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
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