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An edition of Rational rabbis (1997)

Rational rabbis

science and Talmudic culture

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Talmudic culture is often viewed as bound by its traditions, both by people who accept the authority of the Talmud and by those who do not. In contrast to this view, Menachem Fisch maintains that a close reading of talmudic texts frequently reveals their authors as rabbis who, rather than conform uncritically to tradition, knowingly set out to expose and resolve problems inherent in the received traditions.

Rational Rabbis describes an essential similarity between Athens and Jerusalem - between the rationality underlying the enterprise of western science and that of talmudic reasoning. More than faithful curators of a static tradition, talmudic antitraditionalists saw themselves much as scientists might see themselves today - as intellectuals whose job was to find flaws in time-honored theories, and to act rationally to improve upon them.

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Pages
263

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Rational rabbis: science and Talmudic culture
1997, Indiana University Press
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Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture
1997, Indiana University Press
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Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture
1997, Indiana University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-249) and indexes.

Published in
Bloomington
Series
Jewish literature and culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
296.3/75
Library of Congress
BM538.S3 F57 1997, BM538.S3F57 1997, BM538.S3 F57 1997eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 263 p. ;
Number of pages
263

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL661886M
Internet Archive
rationalrabbissc0000fisc
ISBN 10
0253333164
LCCN
97007349
OCLC/WorldCat
44964607, 36461693
Library Thing
3212391
Goodreads
1036529

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