A Transgression for the Sake of God— ‘Averah Li-shmah
A Tale of a Radical Idea in Talmudic Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12012231 |
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| Authors | Yuval Blankovsky (University of Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-338 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0364-0094 • E-ISSN: 1475-4541 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0364009414000282 |
| OpenAlex | W2149409709 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Babylonian Talmud (BT) attributes the idea of committing a transgression for the sake of God to R. Naḥman b. Isaac (RNBI). RNBI's statement appears in two parallel sugyot in the BT (Nazir 23a; Horayot 10a). Each sugya has four textual witnesses. By comparing these textual witnesses, this paper will attempt to reconstruct the sugya's earlier (or, what some might term, original) dialectical form, from which the two familiar versions of the text in Nazir and Horayot evolved. This article reveals the specific ways in which, value-laden conceptualizations have a major impact on the Talmud's formulation, as we know it today
Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Judaism · Literature · Marine transgression · Statement (logic · Talmud · Theology · Value (mathematics · Ancient Near East History · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Botanical Research and Chemistry · Computer Science · Philosophy · Geology · Paleontology
| Highly cited | No |
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