Ebook: Law and self-knowledge in the Talmud

Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.;The inward turn in rabbinic literature -- Knowledge of the body : the case of sensation -- Asserting the needs of the body -- Between body and mind : the suffering self -- Self-knowledge and a wife's autonomy -- Conclusion.