Socrates and the fat rabbis
By: Daniel Boyarin.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226069166
Subjects: Plato; Talmud -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic, The
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas; title: In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction; title: "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue; title: "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical; title: Reading "The Gorgias"; title: Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud; title: "Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud; title: Icaromeʻir: Rabbi Meʻir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire; title: "The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue; title: A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium; title: Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical.