Intellectual Profiles in both Talmud and Midrash (Maren Niehoff)
To conclude, I have greatly benefited from Vidas’ book and am sure that it will inspire further research. The area where my own views differ most distinctly from his pertain to the impact of redaction. Both the individual profile of rabbis and the image of geographical centers of learning seem to me to be more complicated and filtered through cultural and political agendas.Vidas’ Yerushalmi and the Reputation of the Tannaim (Ishay Rosen-Zvi)
Moulie uncovers a new world of distinctions between the Yerushalmi and the Tannaitic literature. We’ve missed these distinctions because the Yerushalmi is usually studied as a supplement—either as a continuation of the tannaitic literature (revising traditions) or as a precursor to the Bavli (proto-sugyot).Author Response: Moulie Vidas on the Rise of Talmud (Moulie Vidas)
The Rise of Talmud concludes with the argument that Talmud was distinctive because it centered humans reading other humans, as opposed to humans reading God; let this piece conclude with an argument for humans reading other humans as opposed to machines.Yes.
I noted the first essay in the series here.
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