Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 4:4. Adolf Schwarz, in his well-known work, Der Hermeneutische Syllogismus in der Talmudischen Litteratur,[1] suggests in the title and develops in the work itself the idea that the Talmudic hermeneutic mode of qal[2] wa-homer is identical with the Aristotelean Syllogism. It will be shown here that not only is there…