Socrates and the fat rabbis

Description:

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.

subjects: Talmud,  The Comic,  Criticism, interpretation,  Criticism and interpretation,  Realismus,  Dialogues (Plato),  Babylonischer Talmud,  Talmud Bavli,  Idealismus,  Plato,  Comic, the

People: Plato