Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-369) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical -- Reading "The Gorgias" -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- "Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud -- Icaromeʻir: Rabbi Meʻir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire -- "The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue -- A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium -- Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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MIL
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242619
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Title
Socrates and the fat rabbis.
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9780226069166
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Plato., Dialogues.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Talmud-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dialogues (Plato)
Talmud.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comic, The.
Comic, The.
PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Ancient & Classical.