The Talmud for Beginners (The Talmud for Beginners)
by Judith Z. Abrams
The Talmud is filled with knowledge, inspiration, and insights that enrich all facets of Jewish life. Yet many are intimidated by the thought of studying its text, and their hesitancy prevents them from experiencing the wisdom of its words. In this new volume, Rabbi Judith Abrams takes readers with her on a journey through one volume of the Talmud, offering reassuring guidance and making it meaningful and accessible to all. The Talmud for Beginners-Volume 1: Prayer is the first book in a serie...
Koren Talmud Bavli V6c: Yoma, Daf 47a-68b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, a...
Koren Talmud Bavli V5b: Shekalim, Daf13a-22b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Make Yourself a Teacher (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)
by Professor of English Susan Handelman
Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash (Temple Book)
by Hermann L Strack
Introduction to Rabbinic Literature (Anchor Bible Reference Library (YUP)) (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
by Jacob Neusner
The achievement of a lifetime from one of today's most eminent Judaic scholars--a landmark commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era: the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.
Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
by Professor Beth A Berkowitz
This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions remain definitive today. Kraemer here examine...
Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity. The Talmudic stories make fun of Jesus' birth from a virgin, fervently contest his claim to be the Mes...
Method & Meaning Ancient Jud (American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines,, #10)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner