- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- Introduction
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Chapter One Agobard of Lyons, Megillat Aḥima’ats, and the Babylonian Orientation of Early Ashkenaz -
Chapter Two Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot -
Chapter Three Minhag Ashkenaz ha-Kadmon: An Assessment -
Chapter Four The Authority of the Babylonian Talmud and the Use of Biblical Verses and Aggadah in Early Ashkenaz -
Chapter Five On the Use of Aggadah by the Tosafists: A Response to I. M. Ta-Shma -
Chapter Six Characterizing Medieval Talmudists: A Case Study -
Chapter Seven Communications and the Palestinian Origins of Ashkenaz -
Chapter Eight The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History -
Chapter Nine The ‘Third Yeshivah of Bavel’ and the Cultural Origins of Ashkenaz—A Proposal - A Response to David Berger
- Introduction
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Chapter Ten Between Cross and Crescent -
Chapter Eleven Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Ashkenaz -
Chapter Twelve Maimonides’ Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric -
Chapter Thirteen Responses to Critiques of ‘Maimonides’ Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric’ -
Chapter Fourteen Classification of Mishneh Torah: Problems Real and Imaginary -
Chapter Fifteen Mishneh Torah: Polemic and Art - Bibliography of Manuscripts
- Source Acknowledgments
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects
Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot
Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot
- Chapter:
- (p.23) Chapter Two Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot
- Source:
- Collected Essays: v. 2
- Author(s):
Haym Soloveitchik
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter analyzes two claims made by Avraham Grossman. The first is that the tosafist movement arose, not in the talmudic academies of France in the twelfth century as commonly thought, but in those of Germany in the eleventh century — more specifically in Worms, in the academy of R. Shelomoh b. Shimshon (also known as Rabbenu Sasson). The tosafist method of study is dialectical. Furthermore, Grossman's opinion is that one of the three major factors behind the rise of dialectics in the eleventh-century Jewish academies is the flourishing of Christian scholasticism at that time. The chapter considers these claims factually and methodologically.
Keywords: Avraham Grossman, dialectics, scholasticism, Tosafot, tosafist movement, Jewish academies, Christian scholasticism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Agobard of Lyons, Megillat Aḥima’ats, and the Babylonian Orientation of Early Ashkenaz -
Chapter Two Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot -
Chapter Three Minhag Ashkenaz ha-Kadmon: An Assessment -
Chapter Four The Authority of the Babylonian Talmud and the Use of Biblical Verses and Aggadah in Early Ashkenaz -
Chapter Five On the Use of Aggadah by the Tosafists: A Response to I. M. Ta-Shma -
Chapter Six Characterizing Medieval Talmudists: A Case Study -
Chapter Seven Communications and the Palestinian Origins of Ashkenaz -
Chapter Eight The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History -
Chapter Nine The ‘Third Yeshivah of Bavel’ and the Cultural Origins of Ashkenaz—A Proposal - A Response to David Berger
- Introduction
-
Chapter Ten Between Cross and Crescent -
Chapter Eleven Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Ashkenaz -
Chapter Twelve Maimonides’ Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric -
Chapter Thirteen Responses to Critiques of ‘Maimonides’ Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric’ -
Chapter Fourteen Classification of Mishneh Torah: Problems Real and Imaginary -
Chapter Fifteen Mishneh Torah: Polemic and Art - Bibliography of Manuscripts
- Source Acknowledgments
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects
