By Jonathan Wyn Schofer
Schofer's paintings is a superb scholarly beginning to this subject, and but additionally speaks to a much wider viewers. It specializes in 'The Fathers in line with Rabbi Nathan' that's a desirable selection of Rabbinic tales and teachings. Schofer additionally addresses wider issues in rabbinic ethics. i like to recommend this ebook to a person attracted to classical Judaism or historical philosophy typically. i think you will discover this book's content material important and its sort very readable. actually i glance ahead to Schofer's subsequent book.
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Date and Duration Setting out the context of Rabbi Nathan is no simple matter. The relation between text and context is problematic for any work of literature, and recent scholarship on intellectual and literary history has reflected upon the complexities involved. 5 This consideration of context as multifaceted is an important starting point for studying rabbinic materials, for we cannot presume a uniform standard or method for contextualizing texts across the cultures of Roman late antiquity. Rabbi Nathan can be quite productively contexualized in relation to forms of discourse (such as maxims of instruction, midrash and other forms of commentary, and narrative) and with significant qualifications, in relation to society and culture.
65 My descriptive project, though, is not in any simple sense one of either suspicion or retrieval but one in which both impulses are present and mutually intensify each other like juxtaposed complementary colors in a painting. This dual commitment is particularly important since aspects of Rabbi Nathan that differ with modern and postmodern sensibilities are often crucial to its complex accounts of what selves are and could be. For example, rabbis’ elitism and sexism are entangled with their persuasive visions of community and fellowship.
If there is a “Tosephta” to The Fathers, it is also material found within Rabbi Nathan. 12 As others who have worked on these materials, I treat the maxims that form the base of Rabbi Nathan as being part of that text, not, as Talmudists treat the Mishnah, a different text (though, as I discuss below, Rabbi Nathan has an internal hierarchy of meaning, with the commentary often distinguished from the base text). Comparisons with parallel sources also tend to yield ambiguities. While sometimes we find relatively clear cases of older material reworked in Rabbi Nathan, for many of the passages that I focus upon, the parallels offer differently redacted materials rather than the sources of Rabbi Nathan.