Judaic Dialectics: The Talmud And Midrash
Judaic Dialectics
The Talmud and Midrash are commentaries by well-accepted Jewish thinkers and what they had to say about issues of their times. In this sense they were reflections of on-going, dynamic changes in the way the community thought about important issues of their times and places and thus is a form of dialectic thinking. For many who knew of their the corresponding western tradition, this reminded Talmudic thinkers of being a form of dialectics. One example of this is found in the writings of Rasmhi ( an acronym for Rabbi Schlomo Yigzhagi). The interpretive literature on the Talmud began with the rise of Academies in Europe and North Africa. The earliest known European commentary dates from about the 11th C. And is an eclectic
compilation of notes recorded by the Academy of the Mainz Academy. Compilations were written as teaching tools in which difficulties likely to be encountered by students were anticipated and details clarified until a synthesized, comprehensible whole emerged. Rashbi’s grandchild initiated the next phase in Talmudic literature. Reviving Talmudic dialectics, they treated the the Talmud in the same way that it had been treated the Mishna, even linking apparent u related statements from different judicial arguments from independent scholars. The dialectic style was adopted in some European academies that it is said (by Jewish apologists) to have kept the dialectic tradition alive even during the dark and Middle Ages
The Talmud and Midrash are commentaries by well-accepted Jewish thinkers and what they had to say about issues of their times. In this sense they were reflections of on-going, dynamic changes in the way the community thought about important issues of their times and places and thus is a form of dialectic thinking. For many who knew of their the corresponding western tradition, this reminded Talmudic thinkers of being a form of dialectics. One example of this is found in the writings of Rasmhi ( an acronym for Rabbi Schlomo Yigzhagi). The interpretive literature on the Talmud began with the rise of Academies in Europe and North Africa. The earliest known European commentary dates from about the 11th C. And is an eclectic
compilation of notes recorded by the Academy of the Mainz Academy. Compilations were written as teaching tools in which difficulties likely to be encountered by students were anticipated and details clarified until a synthesized, comprehensible whole emerged. Rashbi’s grandchild initiated the next phase in Talmudic literature. Reviving Talmudic dialectics, they treated the the Talmud in the same way that it had been treated the Mishna, even linking apparent u related statements from different judicial arguments from independent scholars. The dialectic style was adopted in some European academies that it is said (by Jewish apologists) to have kept the dialectic tradition alive even during the dark and Middle Ages