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Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality.

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"It is a brilliant and novel move to put the Talmud next to Lucian. Boyarin brings together here some very hot topics: cultural difference, cultural regulation, and the specific interface between Jewish and Greco-Roman culture. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis is a book with intellectual range and ambition. And it is fun - as the title promises." - Simon Goldhill, King's College, University of Cambridge"

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226069166, 978-0226069166
      ISBN10: 0226069168
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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Judaism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality.

      Trade Review
      "It is a brilliant and novel move to put the Talmud next to Lucian. Boyarin brings together here some very hot topics: cultural difference, cultural regulation, and the specific interface between Jewish and Greco-Roman culture. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis is a book with intellectual range and ambition. And it is fun - as the title promises." - Simon Goldhill, King's College, University of Cambridge"

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