Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
אוקימתא; מחקרים בספרות התלמודית והרבנית
Angaben zur Quelle:
ט (תשפא) 1-37
Keywords:
Talmud Bavli. Commentaries
;
Talmud Bavli. Criticism, Redaction
;
Talmud Yerushalmi. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Midrash rabbah. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Sin in rabbinical literature
Abstract:
Bavli Shabbat (55b-56b) introduces a well-known series of apologeticsermons, presented by R. Samuel b. Nahmani in the name of R. Jonathan.According to these sermons, a number of Biblical figures – Reuben, Eli'ssons, Samuel's sons, David, Solomon, and Josiah – did not commit thegrave transgressions the Bible attributes to them. This essay tries toreconstruct the composition of this series of sermons and examine theirattribution to Palestinian Amoraim. The analysis comprises two inquiries.First, a comparison of the Bavli series with earlier Palestinian sourcessuggests that the sermons about Eli's sons and Samuel's sons originatedin Palestinian sermons from the Yerushalmi Talmud and Bereshit Rabba.The sermons in those earlier sources are introduced in the name of othersages, some of them earlier and some later than R. Samuel b. Nahmaniand R. Jonathan. Apparently, these sermons constituted the base of theseries to which the sermons on the other biblical figures were added.Second, an analysis of the sermons as they appear now in the Bavlishows that they are inseparable from the various additions – teachingsattributed to Tannaitic and Amoraic sages, as well as anonymouscommentary. All this suggests that the series of sermons is the work of alater anonymous Babylonian editor who presented his work as stemmingfrom great Palestinian sages.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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