Preview

Judaic Dialectics: The Talmud And Midrash

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
233 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
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

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Entry 8:Passage: “In spite of not having much money, the only reason Darry couldn’t be a soc was us. The gang. Me and Soda. Darry was too smart to be a greaser. I don’t know how I knew, I just did. And I was kind of sorry.” pg 126…

    • 176 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Response: “It is true Abel, He chooses us to be His instrument to proclaim His Word to the world. In Mark 11:1-11, Jesus used a little donkey to ride when entering the city of Jerusalem, people did not look at the donkey, they looked to the One who was riding a donkey and cried out in praises (NKJV). We have to thank Him for choosing us though we had so many things that He does like in us. Alan Carr (2003) said that donkey needed someone to take charge of it, who is our Lord. A wild donkey submitted itself to the Lord and it was not frightened by the crowds but surrendered itself to the Lord totally.”…

    • 118 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    1. Quote: “Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.…

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Moses Vs Hammurabi

    • 338 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Hammurabi and Moses have been compared and contrast throughiut history. Hammurabi code was revealed to him by a Babylonian god . Moses received the Mosaic Law from the God of the Israelites. Although they recieved their laws from different gods, some of the laws within the Hammurabi Code and the Mosiac Law resemables each other…

    • 338 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    1."But on one side of the portal… was a wild rose-bush… which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in…” (Chapter 1, pg.41)…

    • 1624 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    1) The Babylonian law tried to put a monetary value on different parts of justice, and equate crimes together regardless of intention, leading to the popular saying, “an eye for an eye”. This view does not work with a large, professional bureaucracy as it would soon leave the leading kingdom bankrupt. The use of volunteers by the state is exemplified by the “success” of the laws. The leading kingdom believed that laws would be upheld by volunteers, thus preventing anarchy, and establishing rule over the Babylonian people. Public works were also upheld by the “volunteers” as they brought forward people to self-declared Babylonian justice. They kingdom trusted them to bring themselves into justice, thus leading to the pivotal role of the “volunteers”. With the invention of laws, came the power enforcement of the king. The king uses the power of fear to get people to embrace the laws, thus leaving public works behind, in the list of priorities. The state would use the common people for labor, following religion, supporting infrastructure, managing businesses, and controlling the state economic input.…

    • 722 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    There 's a lot of of conflict and segregation featured in Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison emphasizes the country 's state of racial injustice and mentions racial uplift groups and makes note of segregated hospitals to create a focus on race in Song of Solomon. I wanted to look into how different conflicts affected the characters lives in Song of Solomon. I also wanted to see how segregation made life harder for characters. I wanted to write on this subject because, like characters in Song of Solomon, I have faced many issues of conflict and segregation. Song of Solomon show cases of conflict and segregation throughout…

    • 2632 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    I read three stories which are the Judgment of Solomon, the Circle of Chalk and…

    • 92 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In the novel I am David there are several accounts of internal conflicts. An internal conflict is a problem or issue you are fighting inside of you. In this case it does not refer to an illness, but to feelings. An external conflict is an issue that you face with other people or just out in the open.…

    • 260 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The primary philosophical issue Euthyphro and Socrates disagree on is “what is holy and what is not holy” p7, 5c11-d2. Socrates extracts Euthyphro’s thoughts on what the definition of holy verse unholy is in an attempt to use them in his own trial, and later to show Euthyphro that his ideology is flawed. Socrates takes the side of essential knowledge (the nature of something). Euthyphro takes the side of particular knowledge (the characteristics of knowledge). Euthyphro says “I’d say the holy is just what I’m doing now: prosecuting wrongdoers, whether in cases of murder or temple-robbery, or those guilty of any other such offense, be they one’s father or mother or anyone else whatever; and failing to prosecute is unholy” p7, 5d10-e3. Euthyphro believes it his duty to be a voice for the man that has died because no one else will do the morally correct action. Socrates says “Then don’t you realize that now you’re equating holy with what the gods love” p15, c7-8. Socrates unfolds a long and twisting sequence of questions to try and find out what the exact definition of holy is from Euthyphro. Socrates questions Euthyphro because Euthyphro claims to be an expert on religion.…

    • 665 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Great Debaters

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The movie “The Great Debaters”, directed by Denzel Washington, and screen writer Robert Eisele, is base on a true story. The movie shows the way how people use to discriminate on the colored people, back in the days. The most important job in America is the education of our young people. The people were separated; the low class people living in one area and the high class people live in a separate area were the class is higher. A professor of Wiley College named Mr. Melvin B. Tolson held the debating team. He was the coach of the debating team. There were 72 students who signed up for the debating team but only four can be one team. So a try outs was held at Mr. Tolson’s house and the remaining four who made the team are Hamilton Burgess, Henry Lowe, Samantha Booke (alternate), and James Farmer Jr.(alternate). They team trained for a while and was on an adventure that they all enjoy; going around challenging other schools in their area. After, a party James Farmer Jr. went to Mr. Tolson’s house and saw him running into the woods; he followed behind. There was a revolution going on at the time. No one should have known about the revolution but somehow the sheriff found out and disrupt the meeting and carry the one who were captured to the station and torture them for information as to what they were planning. One afternoon, the debating team had decided to go out for lunch to celebrate their victories and to be the first black school to go against a higher class college. Hamilton burgess wanted to know what was going on because he saw the sheriff watching Mr. Tolson’s house. If there was anything going on, his father told him to drop out of the debating…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout the time separating the two World Wars, the United States provided its Jewish residents a unique chance to succeed and prosper. Jenna Weissman Joselit has examined the degree to which an innovative bunch of progressive and inspired modern Orthodox Jews ventured to take advantage of the opportunities this country offered. She discusses the way Orthodox Judaism came to be in the U.S., and the way it changed the image of those most often associated with Orthodoxy. However, this was by no means solely a physical and external change. The transformation of Orthodox Judaism effectively altered the customary Jewish lifestyle.…

    • 265 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Socratic Dialectic

    • 1123 Words
    • 5 Pages

    A friend of Socrates, Chaerephon, asked the Oracle of Delphi if there is anyone wiser than Socrates. The goddess answered that there is not. (Plato, p. 50). Aware that he cannot claim wisdom, but intrigued by the Oracle’s answer, Socrates embarks on a journey to find someone who is truly wise. The method he used to establish someone’s wisdom or lack of it has been known as the Socratic dialectic. Socrates’ dialectic technique, its aim and its method will be examined in this paper. The Apology of Socrates’ by Plato, will be used as a case study to illustrate key points.…

    • 1123 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Great Debaters

    • 765 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Based on a true story, the movie The Great Debaters is about a four person debate team at the historically Black, Wiley College in Marshall, TX. This team made up of one girl, Samantha Booke, and three young men, James Farmer Jr., Henry Lowe, and Hamilton Burgess. They travel all over to compete against the top Black colleges in the country and are also the first African American college to compete against a White college and win almost every debate. This is not their ultimate goal; their goal is to take on Harvard, the reigning national champions. They have several struggles along the way and in this essay I will inform you of them but also how as a team, they overcame them.…

    • 765 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Great Debaters

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Loewen, James W. ,Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong.…

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays