DEVELOPMENTALAND PROGRAMMATIC ASPECTS OF BERUVIM * 330 observance . That conclusion, an inference drawn by late, anonymous Talmudic redactors working centuries after R . Meir, follows from academic exercises that have no relation to idealized norms or social practices . Alexander’s largely synchronic study serves as the platform on which the following remarks are constructed, a partner in dialogue and a touchstone on points of disagreement, for Iread the material diachronically . The study that follows also draws upon findings from my own research . For example, I have found that two stammaitic layers may be By stammaitic,discerned in select passages in the Babylonian Talmud . 3 I mean the anonymous redactorial - authorial layer imposed upon the Talmud’s Tannaitic and Amoraic sources that both incorporates and adapts those sources, converting them into building blocks to be inserted into the rhetorically structured, dialogical essays typical of Those dialogical essays take thethe Babyl...
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