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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

How Blogs Are Like the Talmud

Blogs cite source material and then debate and comment on meaning, putting in writing an oral tradition of discourse while crossreferencing a web of earlier insights.

What if someone started a Talmud blog project, mapping ancient texts to blog format? R. Tarfun commenting on R. Akivah's blog, et. al.

1 Comments:

Blogger Zach Shrier said...

I believe there was a Jonathan Rosen article about this going back a year or so, and he followed it up with a book.

3:48 PM

 

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