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9780300081985

Transmitting Jewish Traditions; Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300081985

  • ISBN10:

    0300081987

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-08-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

This book examines the impact of changing modes of cultural transmission on Jewish and Western cultures over the past two thousand years. The contributors to the volume survey some of the ways -- conscious and subconscious -- in which cultural elements arc selected, shaped, and transmitted, and some of the ways they in turn shape the future of their cultures. Focusing on a range of Jewish cultures from late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern period, the authors consider both the transformation of traditions in their travels from one contemporaneous cultural context to another and their transformation within a single culture overtime.

Some of the studies in the book deal with the transition from mixed oral-written cultures to ones in which written-print is nearly exclusive. Other chapters deal with the processes of transmission such as anthologizing, translating, teaching, and sermonizing. By contextualizing Jewish culture within Western culture and including a comparative perspective, the book makes an important contribution to Judaic studies as well

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
David B. Ruderman
Introduction Transmitting Tradition: Orality and Textuality in Jewish Cultures 1(26)
Yaakov Elman
Israel Gershoni
The Oral-Cultural Context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman Rhetorical Paideia, Discipleship, and the Concept of Oral Torah
27(47)
Martin S. Jaffee
Between Byzantium and Islam: The Transmission of a Jewish Book in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
74(33)
Paul Mandel
Orality and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa
107(31)
Daphna Ephrat
Yaakov Elman
Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah
138(28)
Moshe Idel
Beyond the Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
166(59)
Elliot R. Wolfson
Publication and Reproduction of Literary Texts in Medieval Jewish Civilization: Jewish Scribality and Its Impact on the Texts Transmitted
225(23)
Malachi Beit-Arie
The Sermon as Oral Performance
248(30)
Marc Saperstein
From East to West: Translating Y.L. Perets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
278(32)
Jeffrey Grossman
The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a ``National Culture'' in Palestine
310(14)
Israel Bartal
``Secondary Intellectuals,'' Readers, and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt
324(25)
Israel Gershoni
Index 349

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