Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Babylonian Talmud·Dedication
Vol I — Dedication
Rodkinson's dedication of his New Edition translation of the Babylonian Talmud (1903 first volume). The frame for the entire nine-volume Boston Talmud Society edition.
Source context
- Theme
- dedicatory framing of a sacred rabbinic compilation
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Islamic tradition (isnād / taqdīm practice)Dedicatory and chain-of-transmission framings in Islamic hadith literature serve a structurally analogous function: anchoring a compilation's authority in named transmitters before the body of the text begins.
- Vedic transmission (guru-paramparā)The cross-tradition congruence with Vedic paramparā dedications lies in the shared convention of placing an invocation of lineage at the threshold of a sacred corpus to establish its transmitted, rather than individually authored, character.
Dedication
p. iii
TO
EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
IN RECOGNITION OF
HIS WARM INTEREST AND VALUABLE SERVICES IN PROMOTING THE STUDY OF LITERATURE, AND HIS GREAT INSTRUMENTALITY IN ASSISTING YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO BROADEN THEIR MINDS, AND REACH A HIGHER SOCIAL PLANE, AND FOR HIS MANY WORKS FOR THE COMMUNAL WELFARE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN BEHALF OF THE
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE
THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR
MICHAEL L. RODKINSON.
June 15, 1901.
New York City.