TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blankovsky, Yuval
T1  - Radical idea in talmudic literature
JF  - AJS review : The journal of the Association for Jewish Studies
N2  - The Babylonian Talmud (BT) attributes the idea of committing a transgression for the sake of God to R. Nahman 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.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0364009414000282
SN  - 0364-0094
SN  - 1475-4541
VL  - 38
IS  - 2
SP  - 321
EP  - 338
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -