Essential Papers on the Talmud (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies)
No work has informed Jewish life and history more than the Talmud. This unique and vast collection of teachings and traditions contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 B.C.E.) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 C.E.). This volume adds the insights of modern talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented wor...
This book traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is one of the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal force for medieval Judaism and for some its opinions remain definitive today.
Pirke Avot Illustrated Gift Edition
by Joseph H Hertz and Michoel Muchnik
The complete Hebrew text illuminated by English transliteration and commentary in an illustrated gift edition.
Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner
In Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi, Jacob Neusner systematically defines and classifies the four analytical initiatives of the Bavli in its encounter with the Mishnah. Neusner questions whether the Yerushalmi yields a comparable repertoire of fixed patterns of analysis. In covering four tractates, Neusner first presents a tractate of the Yerushalmi and inductively defines its program for analysis of the law seen in context. For each of the three additional tractates, Neusner creates a log...
The Prophets of Scripture are subverted by the Rabbis of the Talmud and Midrash. In the Rabbinic canon, the Prophets are represented as a miscellaneous mass of proof-texts, made up of one clause or sentence at a time. The Scripture's prophetic writings cited in clauses and phrases in the Rabbinic canon lose their integrity and cease to speak in fully coherent paragraphs and chapters. The same prophets, however, came to whole and coherent expression in other venues established by those same Rabbi...
Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature (Studia Post Biblica, #40)
by Roman Ohrenstein and Barry Gordon
This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics. Its focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the great minds of the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps those "economic treasures" by way of analytic inquiry.
The Annotated and Illustrated Masekhet Brachot
by Moshe Gross and Gad Machta
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
by Professor Jacob Neusner
The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli (Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli, #30)
by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
The Annotated and Illustrated Masekhet Rosh Hashana
by Moshe Gross
Jesus Christ in the Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, and the Liturgy of the Synagogue
The Talmud of the Land of Israel (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism, #16)
Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism.
Tzadka Mimeni (Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility, #2)
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers and students have turned to the Talmud for evidence of rabbinic history, religion, rhetoric, or anthropology; still, few have employed a genuinely literary approach. In Reading th...