Barak S. Cohen
Barak S. Cohen is a Professor of Talmud. His research and course of teaching is in the field of Intellectual History, focusing on Talmudic terminology and methodology. His academic work addresses also historical aspects of the Jews in Babylonia, such as the history of the schools, legal ties between Palestine and Babylonia, the chronology, and the Hierarchical relationship between the Sages.
Phone: 972-3-0547706020
Address: Department of Talmud
Faculty of Jewish Studies
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan 52900
Israel
Phone: 972-3-0547706020
Address: Department of Talmud
Faculty of Jewish Studies
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan 52900
Israel
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Was this corpus one of the main contributors to the forced interpretations and resolutions found so frequently in the Bavli?
Papers by Barak S. Cohen
(והא אמר רב פלוני...!); (2) “Does the master not agree with what R. X said…?” (לא סבר לה מר להא דאמר רב פלוני...?).
In this article I will offer a full presentation of this thorny problem and suggest a new resolution. The results of this analysis lead to some new ways of understanding the difficulties raised in both the amoraic and stammaitic strata of the Babylonian Talmud, as well as the formation of certain trends in legal rulings that developed in Talmudic Babylonia.
Was this corpus one of the main contributors to the forced interpretations and resolutions found so frequently in the Bavli?
(והא אמר רב פלוני...!); (2) “Does the master not agree with what R. X said…?” (לא סבר לה מר להא דאמר רב פלוני...?).
In this article I will offer a full presentation of this thorny problem and suggest a new resolution. The results of this analysis lead to some new ways of understanding the difficulties raised in both the amoraic and stammaitic strata of the Babylonian Talmud, as well as the formation of certain trends in legal rulings that developed in Talmudic Babylonia.