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" Socrates and the fat rabbis / "
Daniel Boyarin.
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BL
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1042000
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b796370
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Boyarin, Daniel.
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Socrates and the fat rabbis /\ Daniel Boyarin.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xiv, 388 pages) :: illustrations
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0226069184
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: 1282426192
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: 9780226069180
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: 9781282426191
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0226069168
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9780226069166
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-369) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical -- Reading "The Gorgias" -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- "Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud -- Icaromeʻir: Rabbi Meʻir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire -- "The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue -- A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium -- Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical.
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An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode.
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Plato., Dialogues.
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Comic, The.
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Comic, The.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Ancient Classical.
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Talmud-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dialogues (Plato)
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Talmud.
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184
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B398.C63B69 2009eb
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