Transmitting Jewish Traditions – Orality, Textuality & Cultural Diffusion (Studies in Jewish Culture and Society) - Hardcover
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An examination of the impact of changing modes of cultural transmission on Jewish and Western cultures over the past 2000 years. It surveys some of the ways in which cultural elements are selected, shaped and transmitted, and the ways in which they in turn shape the future of their cultures.
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An examination of the impact of changing modes of cultural transmission on Jewish and Western cultures over the past 2000 years. It surveys some of the ways in which cultural elements are selected, shaped and transmitted, and the ways in which they in turn shape the future of their cultures.
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Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion (Studies in Jewish Culture and Society)
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Yale University Press, 2000
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Transmitting Jewish Tradition: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion.
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Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000
ISBN 10: 0300081987
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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 353 pp., index Foreword by Daivd Ruderman. Introduction by the editors. Articles are "The Oral-Cultural Context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman Rhedorical Paideia, Discipleship, and the Context of Oral Torah," Martin S. Jaffe, "Between Byzantium and Islam: Transmission of a Jewish Book in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods," Paul Mandel, "Orality and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa," Daphna Ephrat and Elman, "Transmission in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah," Moshe Idel, "Beyond Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism," Elliot R. Wolfson, "Publication and Reproduction of Literary Texts in Medieval Jewish Civilization: Jewish Scribality and Its Impact on the Texts Trasmitted," Malachi Beit-Ari, "The Sermon as Oral Performance," Marc Saperstein, "From East to West: Translating Y.L. Perets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany," Jeffrey Grossman, "The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a 'National Culture' in Palestine," Israel Bartal, "'Secondary Intellectuals,' Readers and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt," Israel Gershoni. Seller Inventory # 58222
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Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion
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Yale University Press, New Haven; London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0300081987
ISBN 13: 9780300081985
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. KB41.xi, 353 pp. Index. Octavo. Glossy purple dust jacket with black panel, gold and white text. DJ has some minor shelf wear, flaps intact. Book itself is clean and unmarked, good copy. Each section has its own end notes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 353 pages. Seller Inventory # 11541