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Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion (Studies in Jewish Culture and Society) - Hardcover
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This book is the first collection of writings devoted to the ways in which Jewish traditions have been handed down, both orally and in writing, from late antiquity to modern times. The contributors survey some of the ways-conscious and subconscious-that cultural elements are selected, shaped, and transmitted from one culture to another as well as the ways they shape a single culture over time. University of Pennsylvania Studies in Jewish Culture and Society
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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 are 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 over time. 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 as to other areas of the humanities concerned with questions of textuality and culture.
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Yaakov Elman is associate professor of Judaic studies at Yeshiva University and co-director of the Friedberg Genizah Project. Israel Gershoni is professor of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University.University of Pennsylvania Studies in Jewish Culture and Society
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0300081987
- ISBN 13 9780300081985
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages366
- EditorElman Yaakov, Gershoni Israel
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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 353 pp., index Foreword by Daivd Ruderman. Introduction by the editors. Articles are "The Oral-Cultural Context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman Rhedorical Paideia, Discipleship, and the Context of Oral Torah," Martin S. Jaffe, "Between Byzantium and Islam: Transmission of a Jewish Book in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods," Paul Mandel, "Orality and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa," Daphna Ephrat and Elman, "Transmission in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah," Moshe Idel, "Beyond Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism," Elliot R. Wolfson, "Publication and Reproduction of Literary Texts in Medieval Jewish Civilization: Jewish Scribality and Its Impact on the Texts Trasmitted," Malachi Beit-Ari, "The Sermon as Oral Performance," Marc Saperstein, "From East to West: Translating Y.L. Perets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany," Jeffrey Grossman, "The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a 'National Culture' in Palestine," Israel Bartal, "'Secondary Intellectuals,' Readers and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt," Israel Gershoni. Seller Inventory # 58222
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