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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Pages
- 408 pages
- ISBN
- 9780226069173
Socrates and the fat rabbis
The outer archives are busy
About this book
An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode.
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