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Talmud and the Ethics of Close Reading

Introduction

This issue of the Journal of Textual Reasoning explores the recent resurgence of interest in talmudic narratives, focusing on the challenges and possibilities of these narratives as a resource for Jewish ethics. Structured as a symposium, it examines the ways in which these stories may shape the reader as an ethical agent, but also the ways in which the reader’s assumptions and formation can predetermine their engagement with these narratives and the ethical insights (or lack thereof) that they find within them.