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Structure and form in the Babylonian Talmud
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ISBN: 0521403456 0521050316 0511557353 0511832842 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, which is a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The contribution made by Dr Jacobs to the study of the Talmud consists in his presentation of the literary principles employed in its composition, and he here presents a clear survey indicating the manner in which earlier material was reworked in order to make each component, or sugya, into a carefully structured and self-consistent unit. Jacobs compares the editors' methods in this regard with the manner in which Shakespeare converted the variety of chronicles and source material available to him into a much more dramatic literary form, which - while preserving the kernel of the story - completely transformed its character and impact. Dr Jacobs' study constitutes an excellent introduction to the Babylonian Talmud and to the nature of rabbinic thinking.

Du sacré au saint : cinq nouvelles lectures talmudiques
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ISBN: 270730168X 9782707301680 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris : Editions de Minuit,


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Learning to Read Talmud : What It Looks Like and How It Happens
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ISBN: 1618115774 1618115138 1618115146 Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,

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Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal. Bridging the study of Talmud and the study of pedagogy, this book is an essential resource for scholars, curriculum writers, and classroom teachers of Talmud.


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A history of the Talmud
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ISBN: 9781108481366 1108481361 9781108611411 9781108722261 1108655556 1108661769 1108611419 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it.

A dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the talmudic and geonic periods
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ISBN: 0801872332 9652262609 Year: 2002 Publisher: Baltimore London : Ramat-Gan : The John Hopkins Press, Bar Ilan University Press,


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Plato and the Talmud
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ISBN: 9780511761560 9780521193139 9781107612693 9780511909931 0511909934 0511907133 9780511907135 0521193133 0511850921 1107214165 1282818023 9786612818028 0511909187 0511908431 0511761562 0511905858 1107612691 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This innovative study sees the relationship between Athens and Jerusalem through the lens of the Platonic dialogues and the Talmud. Howland argues that these texts are animated by comparable conceptions of the proper roles of inquiry and reasoned debate in religious life, and by a profound awareness of the limits of our understanding of things divine. Insightful readings of Plato's Apology, Euthyphro and chapter three of tractate Ta'anit explore the relationship of prophets and philosophers, fathers and sons, and gods and men (among other themes), bringing to light the tension between rational inquiry and faith that is essential to the speeches and deeds of both Socrates and the Talmudic sages. In reflecting on the pedagogy of these texts, Howland shows in detail how Talmudic aggadah and Platonic drama and narrative speak to different sorts of readers in seeking mimetically to convey the living ethos of rabbinic Judaism and Socratic philosophising.


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The Talmudic argument : a study in Talmudic reasoning and methodology
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ISBN: 0521263700 0521269482 0511557361 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book, the only one in English that can serve as a textbook for beginners and more advanced students of the Babylonian Talmud, examines in detail a number of typical lengthy passages with a view to showing how Talmudic reasoning operates and how the Talmud was compiled by its final editors. The book serves as an introduction to the nature of this fascinating work on which the Jewish mind has been intellectually stimulated and nourished for over 1500 years. Original insights into the Talmudic debates are provided for the consideration of Talmudic experts but the work is intended chiefly as a guide to students who wish to obtain a more than superficial idea of what the Talmud really is about.


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The Formation of the Talmud : Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy's Dorot Harishonim
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ISBN: 311070983X 9783110709834 3110709457 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy's historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis beginning in the fourth century and ending by the sixth century. Halevy's model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the Orthodox political body in whose founding he played a leading role. Foreword by Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of How Do We Know This? Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism, among other works.


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The Babylonian Talmud and late antique book culture
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ISBN: 9781009297349 9781009297332 9781009297325 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Monika Amsler explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the rulings and stories we find in the Talmud were passed on from one generation to the next, each generation adding their opinions and interpretations of a given subject. Yet, such an oral formation process is unheard of in late antiquity. Moreover, the model exoticizes the Talmud and disregards the intellectual world of Sassanid Persia. Rather than taking the Talmud's discursive structure as a sign for orality, Amsler interrogates the intellectual and material prerequisites of composers of such complex works, and their education and methods of large-scale data management. She also traces and highlights the marks that their working methods inevitably left in the text. Detailing how intellectual innovation was generated, Amsler's book also sheds new light on the content of the Talmud. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Printing the Talmud : a history of the individual treatises printed from 1700-1750
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ISBN: 9004112936 9789004112933 Year: 1999 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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