The Use of Numbers as an Editing Device in Rabbinic Literature

Ariel Ram Pasternak; Shamir Yona

doi:10.1163/15700704-12341327

The Use of Numbers as an Editing Device in Rabbinic Literature

Ariel Ram Pasternak
, Shamir Yona

Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East

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Abstract

In the first part of this paper (Review of Rabbinic Literature 19:2, pp. 202-244) we followed the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literatures through the book of Ben-Sira and ultimately into Rabbinic literature. We showed that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as a rhetoric device and used numbers in similar ways. In this conclusion of our paper we will show how the Rabbis used numbers as an editing device in the Mishnah, Tosefta and Babylonian Talmud. This use of the rhetorical device in question is only rarely attested in the Hebrew Bible.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	193-234
Number of pages	42
Journal	Review of Rabbinic Judaism
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700704-12341327
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017

Keywords

Biblical rhetoric
Numerical sayings
Rabbinic literature

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History
Religious studies

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