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Overview"The relationship of the rabbis of Late Antique Palestine to their non-Jewish neighbors, rulers, and interlocutors was complex and often fraught. Jenny R. Labendz investigates the rabbis' self-perception and their self-fashioning within this non-Jewish social and intellectual world, answering a fundamental question: Was the rabbinic participation in Greco-Roman society a begrudging concession or a principled choice? Labendz shows that despite the highly insular and self-referential nature of rabbinic Torah study, some rabbis believed that the involvement of non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture enriched the rabbis' own learning and teaching. Labendz identifies a sub-genre of rabbinic texts that she terms ""Socratic Torah,"" in which rabbis engage in productive dialogue with non-Jews about biblical and rabbinic law and narrative. In these texts, rabbinic epistemology expands to include reliance not only upon Scripture and rabbinic tradition, but upon intuitions and life experiences common to Jews and non-Jews. While most scholarly readings of rabbinic dialogues with non-Jews have focused on the polemical, hostile, or anxiety-ridden nature of the interactions, Socratic Torah reveals that the presence of non-Jews was at times a welcome opportunity for the rabbis to think and speak differently about Torah.Labendz contextualizes her explication of Socratic Torah within rabbinic literature at large, including other passages and statements about non-Jews as well as general intellectual trends in rabbinic literature, and also within cognate literatures, including Plato's dialogues, Jewish texts of the Second Temple period, and the New Testament. Thus the passages that make up the sub-genre of Socratic Torah serve as the entryway for a much broader understanding of rabbinic literature and rabbinic intellectual culture." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny R. Labendz (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, PhD from Jewish Theological Seminary in Talmud and Rabbinics, 2010, Hoboken, NJ)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780199934560ISBN 10: 0199934568 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 23 May 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews<br> Jenny Labendz does a marvelous job of illuminating narratives of dialogues between ancient rabbinic sages and their Greco-Roman counterparts. Of particular reward are her explorations of the relation of these dialogues to those centered on Socrates in the writings of Plato, uncovering thereby the epistemological foundations of these dialogues and their pedagogic function. She provides precious insights into early rabbinic Judaism's view of non-Jews and non-Rabbis as participants in the production, communication, and consumption of 'rabbinic knowledge.' --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, Yale University<p><br> Labendz' argument is fascinating- it echoes the endeavors of advocates of Jewish universalism, eager to defend the cosmopolitan essence of Jewish culture... With this work, Labendz certainly points to new directions in framing otherness through the ages, in a Jewish key. --Center for Jewish Lawand Contemporary Culture Jenny Labendz does a marvelous job of illuminating narratives of dialogues between ancient rabbinic sages and their Greco-Roman counterparts. Of particular reward are her explorations of the relation of these dialogues to those centered on Socrates in the writings of Plato, uncovering thereby the epistemological foundations of these dialogues and their pedagogic function. She provides precious insights into early rabbinic Judaism's view of non-Jews and non-Rabbis as participants in the production, communication, and consumption of 'rabbinic knowledge.' --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, Yale University Author InformationJenny R. Labendz is Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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