- 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
The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History
The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History
- Chapter:
- (p.145) Chapter Eight The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History
- Source:
- Collected Essays: v. 2
- Author(s):
Haym Soloveitchik
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter expresses doubts regarding the Palestinian origins of Ashkenaz. It begins with the methodological problems in the claims for the Palestinian origins of Ashkenaz. The chapter argues that, given the questionable methodology underlying most of the claims for the Palestinian origins of the Ashkenazic community, the thesis remains unproven. To this the chapter adds two empirical objections. The first is that there is no evidence that Early Ashkenaz even possessed a text of the Yerushalmi. Second, medieval scholars in Ashkenaz were actively engaged in exegeting in unprecedented detail the entire corpus of the Bavli. The chapter thus contends that Early Ashkenaz could not have labored mightily on the Bavli and ignored the Yerushalmi if they were guided all the while by Palestinian halakhah and its rite.
Keywords: Early Ashkenaz, Palestine, Yerushalmi, Bavli, halakhic history, Ashkenazi community, Palsetinian halakhah
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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
