Measure for Measure
The talmudic narrative about a gentile who approaches Shammai and Hillel desiring to be taught the entire Torah “on one foot” (bShab 31a) has been claimed to be based on a bilingual (Hebrew-Latin) pun. This short-form essay examines this claim and demonstrates that the double entendre may be more el...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Penn Press
2024
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The Jewish quarterly review
Έτος: 2024, Τόμος: 114, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 1-8 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
BILINGUAL
B Shammai B Wordplay B trilingual B middot B pun B intentional ambiguity B double entendre B Rabbinic Literature B Hillel |
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| Σύνοψη: | The talmudic narrative about a gentile who approaches Shammai and Hillel desiring to be taught the entire Torah “on one foot” (bShab 31a) has been claimed to be based on a bilingual (Hebrew-Latin) pun. This short-form essay examines this claim and demonstrates that the double entendre may be more elaborate than has been argued in the past, and may involve three languages rather than two. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2024.a921346 |