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What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.

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"Daniel Boyarin's ingeniously constructed dialogue between Plato and the Talmud in this book has implications for cultural and intellectual history.... Boyarin simultaneously reveals the despotic kernel of secular rationalism and the grotesque core of sacred revelation." (Times Literary Supplement)"

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

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    A Paperback / softback by Daniel Boyarin

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/06/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226069173, 978-0226069173
      ISBN10: 0226069176
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      Judaism Religion and beliefs

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.

      Trade Review
      "Daniel Boyarin's ingeniously constructed dialogue between Plato and the Talmud in this book has implications for cultural and intellectual history.... Boyarin simultaneously reveals the despotic kernel of secular rationalism and the grotesque core of sacred revelation." (Times Literary Supplement)"

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