@Book{59756826X, author="Boyarin, Daniel", title="Socrates {\&} the fat rabbis", year="2009", publisher="The University of Chicago Press", address="Chicago [u.a.]", keywords="Criticism, interpretation, etc; Comic, The", contents="Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- ``Confound laughter with seriousness'': the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- ``Confound seriousness with laughter'': on monological and dialogical -- Reading ``The Gorgias'' -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- ``Read Lucian!'': Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud -- Icaromeʿir: Rabbi Meʿir's Babylonian ``Life'' as Menippean satire -- ``The truest tragedy'': the Symposium as monologue -- A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium -- Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical.", abstract="An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode", note="Daniel Boyarin", note="Hier auch sp{\"a}ter erschienene, unver{\"a}nderte Nachdrucke", note="Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-369) and index", note="Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gew{\"a}hrleistet SSG XA-DE-BW pdager DE-21", isbn="0226069168", language="English" }