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Socratic Torah non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture

Title: Socratic Torah [electronic resource] : non-Jews in rabbinic intellectual culture / Jenny R. Labendz.
Author: Labendz, Jenny R. 1979-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

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1 online resource (xi, 255 p.)

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Socratic Torah (Online)

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Socratic Torah (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Contents

Platonic and rabbinic dialogues compared -- The epistemological implications of Socratic Torah -- Rabbinic boundaries expanded -- Socratic Torah contested -- Multiple audiences, multiple discourses -- The wisdom of non-Jews and its relevance to Torah -- Rabbis and non-rabbis: minim and matrona -- Rabbis and non-Jews in the Babylonian Talmud.

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