The Talmud's Theological Language-Game by Eugene B. Borowitz - 9780791467022

The Talmud's Theological Language-GameA Philosophical Discourse Analysis\nAuthor(s): Eugene B. Borowitz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9780791467022, 978-0791467022\nSynopsis\nAnalyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.\n\nIn this pioneering effort, noted Jewish philosopher Eugene B. Borowitz opens up the rules by which the language-game of aggadic discourse is carried on in the Talmud, the foundational document of rabbinic and all later Judaism. These findings are compared with the aggadah (the realm in which almost all explicit statements about classic Jewish religious belief occur) of some other early rabbinic writings. Two issues drive Borowitz's inquiry: What, if anything, constrains the unprecedented freedom of this realm? and How might one positively characterize the aggadah? Borowitz introduces us to the rabbis not only in their amazing profundity,.