The Talmudic Hermeneutical Rule of ‘Binyan ‘Abh’ and J.S. Mill’s ‘Method of Agreement’

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 4:2. The idea of the influence of Aristotelian logic on the talmudic hermeneutic principles (middoth), via Shemaiah and Abtalion, the teachers of Hillel, was first advanced as an hypothesis by Adolf Jellinek in the last century and has since won wide acceptance.[1] Adolf Schwarz in particular has noted the analogy…