Departmental Papers (Jewish Studies)
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
1997
Publication Source
Journal of Textual Reasoning
Volume
6 (Old Series)
Issue
1b
Abstract
I would like to thank Aryeh for his reading of b. Sanh. 74a-75a. The mark of a good reading, to my mind, is that it does not merely explain a text, but suggests further creative interaction with it; and Aryeh's reading has done this for me. I will focus my remarks on the chief line to which Aryeh drew our attention (his line #25, in my translation): "so also must (s)he be slain rather than he transgress." Just as the textual crux of *t/yehareg* provided Aryeh with the kind of uncertainty into which a wedge that opens the text for interpretation can be fit, lines 24 and 25 both share a grammatical indeterminacy that prompts further reflection. But bear with me a moment on my way to the Sanhedrin text; as a student primarily of the Tanakh, not the Talmud, I have a biblical errand to run before I can get there.
Copyright/Permission Statement
Originally published in Textual Reasoning and can be found at http://jtr.shanti.virginia.edu/textual-reasoning-vol-6-1a-february-1997/.
Recommended Citation
Carasik, Michael, "Response to Aryeh Cohen "Notes Towards an Erotics of Martyrdom"" (1997). Departmental Papers (Jewish Studies). 20.
https://repository.upenn.edu/jewishstudies_papers/20
Date Posted: 05 July 2017
Comments
At the time of this publication, Dr. Carasik was affiliated with Hebrew College, Boston MA, but he is now a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania.