Cover -- Table of Contents -- Original Publication -- Introduction -- I. The Linguistic Gambit -- The Loss of Final Consonants in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic (BJA) -- Abstract -- On the History of the Babylonian Jewish Aramaic Reading Traditions: The Reflexes of *a and *ā -- 1. Mo…
Diese Sammlung bisher nur einzeln veröffentlichter Aufsätze Daniel Boyarins zum Talmud stellt die verschiedenen Methoden und Ansätze dar, die seine Arbeit in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten beflügelt haben.
""This collection of Daniel Boyarin's previously uncollected essays on the Talmud represents the different methods and lines of inquiry that have animated his work on that text over the last four decades. Ranging and changing from linguistic work to work on sex and gender to the…
In A Traveling Homeland, Daniel Boyarin makes the case that the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto producing and defining the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity in the form of textual, interpretive communities built around talmudic study.
"A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. …
