Six Memos from the Last Millennium : : A Novelist Reads the Talmud / / Joseph Skibell.
A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother’s and her husband’s egos to preserve their family. Stories such as these enliven the page...
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Skibell, Joseph, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Six Memos from the Last Millennium : A Novelist Reads the Talmud / Joseph Skibell. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Title -- Ac knowledgments -- A Novelist Reads the Talmud An Introduction -- Timeline of Relevant Events, According to Rabbinic Tradition -- Memo One. Rabbi Yohanan (died c. 4040/279 CE) and Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish (c. 4010–4060/ second half of second century CE) -- Chapter 1. Eros and Alchemy in the Waters of the Jordan -- Memo Two. Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (flourished c. 3890–3920/130–160 CE) -- Chapter 2. Turning the Hearts of Fathers -- Memo Three. A Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Shimon (flourished c. 3910/end of second century CE) -- Memo Three B. Rabbi Pinhas ben Yair (first third of the third century CE) -- Memo Three C. Rabbi Judah ben Gerim (c. 3910/end of second century CE) -- Chapter 3. Towards the Hearts of Sons -- Memo Four. Rabban Gamliel II of Yavneh (flourished 3850–3875/90–115 CE), Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah (flourished 3850–3890/90– 130 CE), and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (flourished c. 3830–3945/70–185 CE) -- Chapter 4. The Gate of a Broken Heart -- Memo Five. Rabbi Akiva (flourished 3855–3895/ 95–135 CE), Shimon ben Azzai, Shimon ben Zoma, and Elisha ben Avuyah -- Chapter 5. Revelation, Retribution, Perdition, Ecstasy, and Bliss An Epic Canvas -- Endnotes -- Glossary restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother’s and her husband’s egos to preserve their family. Stories such as these enliven the pages of the Talmud, the great repository of ancient wisdom that is one of the sacred texts of the Jewish people. Comprised of the Mishnah, the oral law of the Torah, and the Gemara, a multigenerational metacommentary on the Mishnah dating from between 3950 and 4235 (190 and 475 CE), the Talmud presents a formidable challenge to understand without scholarly training and study. But what if one approaches it as a collection of tales with surprising relevance for contemporary readers? In Six Memos from the Last Millennium, critically acclaimed novelist Joseph Skibell reads some of the Talmud’s tales with a storyteller’s insight, concentrating on the lives of the legendary rabbis depicted in its pages to uncover the wisdom they can still impart to our modern age. He unifies strands of stories that are scattered throughout the Talmud into coherent narratives or “memos,” which he then analyzes and interprets from his perspective as a novelist. In Skibell’s imaginative and personal readings, this sacred literature frequently defies our conventional notions of piety. Sometimes wild, rude, and even bawdy, these memos from the last millennium pursue a livable transcendence, a way of fusing the mundane hours of earthly life with a cosmic sense of holiness and wonder. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021) Amoraim Biography. Talmud Biography. Tannaim Biography. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.7560/307342 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477307359 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477307359/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Title -- Ac knowledgments -- A Novelist Reads the Talmud An Introduction -- Timeline of Relevant Events, According to Rabbinic Tradition -- Memo One. Rabbi Yohanan (died c. 4040/279 CE) and Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish (c. 4010–4060/ second half of second century CE) -- Chapter 1. Eros and Alchemy in the Waters of the Jordan -- Memo Two. Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (flourished c. 3890–3920/130–160 CE) -- Chapter 2. Turning the Hearts of Fathers -- Memo Three. A Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Shimon (flourished c. 3910/end of second century CE) -- Memo Three B. Rabbi Pinhas ben Yair (first third of the third century CE) -- Memo Three C. Rabbi Judah ben Gerim (c. 3910/end of second century CE) -- Chapter 3. Towards the Hearts of Sons -- Memo Four. Rabban Gamliel II of Yavneh (flourished 3850–3875/90–115 CE), Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah (flourished 3850–3890/90– 130 CE), and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (flourished c. 3830–3945/70–185 CE) -- Chapter 4. The Gate of a Broken Heart -- Memo Five. Rabbi Akiva (flourished 3855–3895/ 95–135 CE), Shimon ben Azzai, Shimon ben Zoma, and Elisha ben Avuyah -- Chapter 5. Revelation, Retribution, Perdition, Ecstasy, and Bliss An Epic Canvas -- Endnotes -- Glossary |
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