Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
Daniel BoyarinSocrates and the Fat Rabbis
January 1, 2009The University of Chicago Press408 pages
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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.
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