عنوان

"In the west, they laughed at him:

شماره

LA116084

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"In the west, they laughed at him:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

" The mocking realists of the Babylonian Talmud

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christine Hayes

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill | Nijhoff

متن يادداشت

In the present article I examine the rhetorical function of the phrase "in the west [the Land of Israel], they laughed at him/it" found in dialectical halakhic contexts in the Babylonian Talmud. I argue that the literary motif of "mocking westerners" allows Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to voice reservations about the nominalist or anti-realist orientation of some rabbinic legal interpretation as seen in the use of legal fictions, contrary-to-fact presumptions and judgments, a high degree of intentionalism, and acontextual interpretive techniques. The ability of Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to depict the rabbis' nominalist approach as the object of mockery by various external and, in this case, internal others indicates a high degree of rabbinic self-awareness regarding legal interpretative assumptions and methods. The paper concludes by suggesting that rabbinic nominalism flows from a distinctive and somewhat scandalous rabbinic understanding of divine law-one that self-consciously rejects an ideal of divine law that assumes its truth and verisimilitude. In the present article I examine the rhetorical function of the phrase "in the west [the Land of Israel], they laughed at him/it" found in dialectical halakhic contexts in the Babylonian Talmud. I argue that the literary motif of "mocking westerners" allows Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to voice reservations about the nominalist or anti-realist orientation of some rabbinic legal interpretation as seen in the use of legal fictions, contrary-to-fact presumptions and judgments, a high degree of intentionalism, and acontextual interpretive techniques. The ability of Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to depict the rabbis' nominalist approach as the object of mockery by various external and, in this case, internal others indicates a high degree of rabbinic self-awareness regarding legal interpretative assumptions and methods. The paper concludes by suggesting that rabbinic nominalism flows from a distinctive and somewhat scandalous rabbinic understanding of divine law-one that self-consciously rejects an ideal of divine law that assumes its truth and verisimilitude.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

137-167

عنوان

Journal of Law, Religion and State

شماره جلد

2/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2212-4810

اصطلاح موضوعی

interpretation

اصطلاح موضوعی

nominalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

realism

اصطلاح موضوعی

reflexivity

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christine Hayes

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/22124810-00202002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y