The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction - Couverture rigide

Halivni, David Weiss

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374115451 ISBN 13 : 9780374115456

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The words of the Talmud were the universe for David Weiss Halivni during his childhood in Sighet, in the Carpathian Mountains. Before he was five he began his studies; by the time he was ten he had outgrown the town's teachers and started to learn at home with his scholarly, impoverished grandfather. Even before his ordination at the age of fifteen, in 1943, he was famous for his erudition. But when the Nazis crushed the Jewish community of the Carpathians in 1944, he closed his Talmud. Halivni taught in the concentration camps and risked his life to save a scrap of paper from a sacred book. But adherence to the fundamentalist worldview that insists on reconciling every apparent contradiction in the text troubling to him even as a child had become impossible for him now. When he arrived in New York after the war, he began struggling toward the window” of secular learning. From that synthesis emerged his original approach to critical study of the Talmudic text not only in its modern printed form but as it was in its original form, the Oral Torah from the mouths of countless sages.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Weiss Halivni is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University. He is the author of the nine-volume commentary Sources and Traditions and Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses (WestviewPress 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374115451
• ISBN 13: 9780374115456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 197
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• Personne responsable: non disponible