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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2023

Monika Amsler
Monika Amsler
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Universität Bern, Switzerland

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The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. List of Abbreviations

  3. Introduction

  4. 1The Talmud’s Genre among Imperial Period/Late Antique Genres

    1. The Trouble with Genre

    2. The Commentary in Late Antiquity

    3. The Encyclopedia and the Miscellany in the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity

    4. The Talmud: A Rare Case of a Commentary on an Encyclopedia?

    5. The Talmud: A Symposiac Commentary?

    6. Conclusion

  5. 2Late Antique Data Management

    1. The Perennial Appeal of Orality

    2. Arguing with Yaakov Elman

    3. Looking Over and Beyond Pliny’s Shoulder: Data Management in the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity

    4. The Ubiquity of Excerpting and Reassembling: Writing Material in Late Antiquity

    5. Conclusion

  6. 3Manufacturing the Talmud

    1. Essential Building Blocks of the Talmudic Commentary: Lemmas, Keywords, and Excerpts

    2. The Influence of the Palestinian Talmud on the Keywords

    3. The Rhetorical Structure of the Talmudic Commentaries

    4. The Commentary in b. Sanhedrin 67b

    5. The Commentary in b. Shabbat 30a–31b

    6. Some Reflections on the Date and Relationship of the Two Talmuds

  7. Conclusion

  8. 4The Making of the Talmudic Narrative

    1. The Late Antique Story and Progymnasmatic Training

    2. The Larger Impact of the Progymnasmata

    3. The Talmudic Story

    4. The Case Example: Solomon, Ashmedai, and the Building of the Temple

    5. Creating a Plausible Character

    6. Finding the Template

    7. Summary and Repetition: Potential and Limits of Talmudic Stories

    8. Conclusion

  9. 5Medical Recipes and the Composition of the Talmud

    1. The List of Recipes in Tractate Gittin in Prior Scholarship

    2. Differently Structured Talmudic Recipes in the Hands of the Composers

    3. Pause- and Verb-Recipe Treatises and Their Literary Context

    4. Reassembling and Placing a Medical Treatise Used by the Composers of the Talmud

    5. Crossing Genres and Expanding the Classifiable

    6. Conclusion

  10. Consolidation and Further Research Paths

  11. Appendix: The Talmud’s Aramaic Treatise of Simple Remedies

    1. Prolegomena

    2. The Treatise

  12. Bibliography

  13. Ancient Source Index

  14. General Index

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  • Monika Amsler, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book: The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
  • Online publication: 30 March 2023
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