Becoming the People of the Talmud
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Becoming the People of the Talmud by Talya Fishman
Talya Fishman explores the impact of the textualization process in medieval Europe on the Babylonian Talmud's roles within Jewish culture.
"A vital addition to any Jewish studies library in America" * Jewish Book World *
"Talya Fishman's ambitious new study . . . indicates the sweep of the issues that are a significant part of Jewish cultural history from late antiquity through the High Middle Ages." * American Historical Review *
"For every historian of intellectual history of the (Christian) High Middle Ages the book is a must." * Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies *
"An indispensable study, whose exemplary exposition of Jewish attitudes toward oral, written, and legal matters may well spark comparisons with other cultures, for Fishman has brilliantly shown that words can produce meaning through their epistemological categorization as oral or written, a categorization that itself remains undetermined by their actual mediatic support." * Law and History Review *
"Becoming the People of the Talmud offers a unique and highly original contribution to our understanding of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. The book indubitably places Talya Fishman in the vanguard of scholarly research." * Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem *
"Talya Fishman's ambitious new study . . . indicates the sweep of the issues that are a significant part of Jewish cultural history from late antiquity through the High Middle Ages." * American Historical Review *
"For every historian of intellectual history of the (Christian) High Middle Ages the book is a must." * Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies *
"An indispensable study, whose exemplary exposition of Jewish attitudes toward oral, written, and legal matters may well spark comparisons with other cultures, for Fishman has brilliantly shown that words can produce meaning through their epistemological categorization as oral or written, a categorization that itself remains undetermined by their actual mediatic support." * Law and History Review *
"Becoming the People of the Talmud offers a unique and highly original contribution to our understanding of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. The book indubitably places Talya Fishman in the vanguard of scholarly research." * Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem *
Talya Fishman is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shaking the Pillars of Exile: "Voice of a Fool," an Early Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812222876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812222873 |
| Title | Becoming the People of the Talmud |
| Author | Talya Fishman |
| Series | Jewish Culture And Contexts |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2013-12-12 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2011 Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award of the Jewish Book Council 2021, Winner of Winner of the 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2011 (United States) |
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