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Jerusalem and Athens: The Congruity of Talmudic and Classical Philosophy (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, V. 52)

By Jacob Neusner

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
1997
ISBN
9004106987, 9789004106987
LCC
BM501 .N48337 1997
Open Library ID
OL1011030M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12187260 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism volume 52
Pages
182\182
DPI
400
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

The Talmud - the Mishnah, a philosophical law code, and the Gemara, a dialectical commentary upon the Mishnah - works by translating principal modes of Western philosophy and science into the analysis of the rules of rationality governing the rules of humble, everyday reality. Science, in particular the method of hierarchical classification characteristic of natural history, supplies the method of making connections and drawing conclusions to the Mishnah, the law-code that forms the foundation-document of the Talmud, as Neusner demonstrated in his "Judaism as Philosophy. The Method and Message of the Mishnah," Here he proceeds to show how philosophy, specifically dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical presentations, or tractates, of the Mishnah.

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