Rabbis and classical rhetoric: sophistic education and oratory in the talmud and midrash
Auteur :
Hidary, Richard
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781316628355
Date de publication :
12 sept. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,1 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
500 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Training in rhetoric formed the basis of education in the Roman Empire, even as philosophers like Plato derided it as worthless trickery. The Talmudic rabbis, as a minority in the Greek East, chart a novel approach through this dialectic that engages Greco-Roman rhetoric to recreate the pristine Sinaitic prophetic experience.