Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. INTRODUCTION: Transmitting Tradition: Omlity and Textuality in Jewish Cultures 1
5. ONE: The Oral-Cultural Context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman Rhetorical Paideia, Discipleship, and the Concept of Oral Torah 27
6. TWO: Between Byzantium and Islam: The Transmission of a Jewish Book in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods 74
7. THREE: Omlity and the Institutionalization of Tradition: The Growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa 107
8. FOUR: Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah 138
9. FIVE: Beyond the Spoken Word: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Medieval Jewish Mysticism 166
10. SIX: Publication and Reproduction of Literary Texts in Medieval Jewish Civilization: Jewish Scribality and Its Impact on the Texts Transmitted 225
11. SEVEN: The Sermon as Oral Performance 248
12. EIGHT: From East to West: Translating T. L. Perets in Early Twentieth-Century Germany 278
13. NINE: The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a “National Culture” in Palestine 310
14. TEN: “Secondary Intellectuals” Readers, and Readership as Agents of National-Cultural Reproduction in Modern Egypt 324
15. Index 349