The Essential Talmud
The Essential Talmud

Author: Adin Steinsaltz

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780465020638

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An Israeli rabbi and scholar conveys the spirit of the Talmud as he treats its composition, traditions, structure, and laws

Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud
Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud

Author: Moses Maimonides

Publisher:

Published: 1998-11-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781880582282

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This award-winning English translation of Maimonides' indispensable work has become a classic. In this superb introduction to the Talmud, Maimonides explains the origins, aims, methodology, and spirit of the Talmud and delineates all the Rabbinic sages of the period. Includes the complete Hebrew text of Maimonides' Introduction.

Who's Who in the Talmud
Who's Who in the Talmud

Author: Shulamis Frieman

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 2000-04-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1461632544

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This exceptional work, with entries from Rav Abba to Rav Zutra, is an unprecedented study of every rabbi in the Talmud. The reader will find concise entries on every rabbinic personality mentioned in the Talmud, major and minor alike, and will discover such facts as their dates of birth, education, and occupation. Most entries are accompanied by a brief story about the rabbinic personality, with sources cited for easy reference.

Talmudic Images
Talmudic Images

Author: Adin Steinsaltz

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This book is a collection of thirteen intimate portraits of selected Talmudic Personalities.

The Iranian Talmud
The Iranian Talmud

Author: Shai Secunda / Yitz Landes

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-10-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0812209044

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Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together the dynamic world of late antique Iran, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview of the world that shaped the Bavli. Secunda unites the fields of Talmudic scholarship with Old Iranian studies to enable a fresh look at the heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities of pre-Islamic Iran. He analyzes the intercultural dynamics between the Jews and their Persian Zoroastrian neighbors, exploring the complex processes and modes of discourse through which these groups came into contact and considering the ways in which rabbis and Zoroastrian priests perceived one another. Placing the Bavli and examples of Middle Persian literature side by side, the Zoroastrian traces in the former and the discursive and Talmudic qualities of the latter become evident. The Iranian Talmud introduces a substantial and essential shift in the field, setting the stage for further Irano-Talmudic research.

Reconstructing the Talmud
Reconstructing the Talmud

Author: Joshua Kulp

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780983325321

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The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) is a symphony of hundreds of voices, including legal rulings, folklore, biblical interpretations, and rabbinic legends. Each of these voices was originally issued in a distinct generation but was only "captured" and frozen in time by the Talmud's editors, who lived during the fifth through seventh centuries C.E. Reconstructing the Talmud introduces the modern Talmud student to the techniques developed over the last century for uncovering how this literature developed. Opening with an extended introduction outlining the methods employed by scholars to engage in such analysis, Reconstructing the Talmud proceeds with nine examples concretely demonstrating how such methods are applied to actual passages from the Bavli. Sorting out the layers of the Bavli, understanding each layer within its cultural and historical context, and comparing it with earlier sources, reveals a dynamic world of change, debate, halakhic diversity and development far richer and more nuanced than that which is evident in the static and fixed text of the printed edition. Reconstructing the Talmud introduces the reader to the world of academic Talmudic research and opens new venues of exploration and understanding of one of the world's great literary treasures.