Publication

2009 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC184
  • LCCB398.C63 B69 2009
  • LCCB398.C63B69 2009

Description

An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode.

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Other Editions

  • Socrates and the fat rabbisThe University of Chicago Press2009-01-01

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