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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Главный автор: Meshel, Naphtali S. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Penn Press 2024
В: The Jewish quarterly review
Год: 2024, Том: 114, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 1-8
Другие ключевые слова: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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Итог: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.
ISSN:1553-0604
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2024.a921346