2016
DOI: 10.1017/s036400941600043x
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A “Great Man” Said That? the Representation and Significance of Scholastic Failure in the Babylonian Talmud

Abstract: Academic achievement was prized in Babylonian rabbinic culture (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Yet alongside examples of scholarly ingenuity, the Babylonian Talmud records intellectual setbacks. How academic failure is constituted and the reactions to it within the talmudic text are key to understanding dynamics between sages and the cultural values of Babylonian rabbinic Judaism. Academic failure depends more on the social rank of the man than on the nature of his mistake. The modes of failure for sages in te… Show more

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