The Preservation of Amoraic Argumentation

Abstract The extent to which we understand the amoraim of the middle generations to have distanced themselves from earlier models depends heavily on our view of their involvement in the preservation of argumentation. There is of course no question that they participated in argumentation; there is ample evidence of the fact that they did. But there is also little question that their amoraic predecessors, or the tannaim before them, also participated in argumentation.