Response to Azzan Yadin-Israel on Rabbinic Polysemy: Do They "Preach" What They Practice?. Issue 2 (1st December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fraade, Steven D.
• Is Part Of: AJS review. Volume 38:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 339
• Page End: 361
• Publication Date: 2014-12-01
• Subjects: Jews -- History -- Periodicals; Judaism -- History -- Periodicals; 296.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S0364009414000294
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0364-0094

Abstract

Abstract : The author revisits texts and arguments from his 2007 article in AJS Review 31 no. 1 in response to a "response" by Azzan Yadin-Israel in the April 2014 issue (38, no. 1). The central question is whether the widespread rabbinic textual practices of interpretive polysemy and legal multivocality are the product of the post-amoraic ("stammaitic") editorial layer of the Babylonian Talmud (Yadin-Israel) or are already evidenced and theologically thematized in the earlier "tannaitic" rabbinic collections from the Land of Israel (Fraade).