The Talmud : a biography /
"The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books
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| Summary: | "The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the ... story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia"--Dust jacket flap |
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-285) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780691161846 0691161844 |