What is good, and what God demands: normative structures in Tannaitic literature
Preliminary Material /T. Novick -- Introduction /T. Novick -- Chapter One. Categorical Oppositions /T. Novick -- Chapter Two. Teleological Mitzvah /T. Novick -- Chapter Three. Scripture And World: Between The Schools Of R. Akiva And R. Ishmael /T. Novick -- Chapter Four. The Normative Realm As Mitzv...
| Sumario: | Preliminary Material /T. Novick -- Introduction /T. Novick -- Chapter One. Categorical Oppositions /T. Novick -- Chapter Two. Teleological Mitzvah /T. Novick -- Chapter Three. Scripture And World: Between The Schools Of R. Akiva And R. Ishmael /T. Novick -- Chapter Four. The Normative Realm As Mitzvah /T. Novick -- Chapter Five. "One Need Not Scruple": Law As Intrusion /T. Novick -- Chapter Six. Cautious Actors /T. Novick -- Chapter Seven. Eager Observance /T. Novick -- Chapter Eight. Exemplarity /T. Novick -- Conclusion /T. Novick -- Bibliography /T. Novick -- Index Of Names /T. Novick -- Index Of Sources /T. Novick. The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of tannaitic normativity. However, these two frameworks overlook precisely the productive intersection of deontological with non-deontological, the first because supererogation defines itself against obligation, and the second because the Greco-Roman comparate discourages serious treatment of law-like elements. This book addresses ways in which alternative normative forms entwine with the core deontological rhetoric of tannaitic literature. This perspective exposes, inter alia, echoes of the post-biblical wisdom tradition in tannaitic law, the rich polyvalence of the category mitzvah, and telling differences between the schools of Akiva and Ishmael |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and an indexes |
| ISBN: | 9004187588 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004187580.i-248 |