The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context

Examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalised rhetoric which pervades the "Babylonian Talmud". This title explores how the editors of the "Talmud" employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalised linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the "Talmud's" renowned dialectical, analytic 'essays'.