Socrates & the Fat Rabbis
Socrates & the Fat Rabbis
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Abstract
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, the book looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts it finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But the book goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship. It suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, the book demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, it shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. The book ultimately 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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Front Matter
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In Praise of Indecorous Acts of Discourse: An Essay by Way of Introduction
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“Confound Laughter with Seriousness”: The Protagoras as Monological Dialogue
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“Confound Seriousness with Laughter”: On Monological and Dialogical Reading—the Gorgias
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Jesting Words and Dreadful Lessons: The Two Voices of the Babylonian Talmud
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“Read Lucian!” Menippean Satire and the Literary World of the Babylonian Talmud
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Icaromeʾir: Rabbi Meʾir's Babylonian “Life” as Menippean Satire
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“The Truest Tragedy” the Symposium as Monologue
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A Crude Contradiction; Or, The Second Accent of the Symposium
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