Good observation about the ההוא כובס trope. It is probably similar to the way "Baal Agala" is used in stories from Eastern Europe, ie, an amharetz, Joe Ballabos.
I would not use the word "deposition" as you do in the title. One can be "deposed", but the word "deposition" in the modern context has a completely different meaning.
Interesting analogy re 'Baal Agala'. I think it's indeed possible that it's related to some stereotype about the occupation, though would want to see proof that it's specifically 'am ha'aretz'.
Re 'deposition', I'm aware of that ambiguity, and I agree that the sense I'm using it here is somewhere archaic, but it's the standard term that's used in the scholarly literature in the context of this story, and I'm not sure if there's a better one-word term.
Good observation about the ההוא כובס trope. It is probably similar to the way "Baal Agala" is used in stories from Eastern Europe, ie, an amharetz, Joe Ballabos.
I would not use the word "deposition" as you do in the title. One can be "deposed", but the word "deposition" in the modern context has a completely different meaning.
Interesting analogy re 'Baal Agala'. I think it's indeed possible that it's related to some stereotype about the occupation, though would want to see proof that it's specifically 'am ha'aretz'.
Re 'deposition', I'm aware of that ambiguity, and I agree that the sense I'm using it here is somewhere archaic, but it's the standard term that's used in the scholarly literature in the context of this story, and I'm not sure if there's a better one-word term.
See for example:
https://cojs.org/babylonian_talmud_berakhot_27b-28a-_the_deposition_of_rabban_gamliel/
https://www.academia.edu/46909889/The_Deposition_of_Rabban_Gamaliel_Talmud_and_the_Political_Unconscious_ZVI_SEPTIMUS
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.18647/616/JJS-1972?download=true