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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Princeton ; Oxford :
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2018
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wimpfheimer, Barry S. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Talmud : |b a biography / |c Barry Scott Wimpfheimer |
| 260 | |a Princeton ; |a Oxford : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2018 | ||
| 300 | |a x, 299 pages : |b illustrations, map ; |c 21 cm | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Lives of great religious books | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-285) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: The Talmud: essential, enhanced, and emblematic -- Gestation and birth (essential Talmud part one) -- Anatomy (essential Talmud part two) -- Election: how the Talmud's discourse developed (enhanced Talmud) -- Rivals, naysayers, imitators, and critics (emblematic Talmud) -- Golden old age: Talmud in modernity, three stories | |
| 520 | |a "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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| 830 | 0 | |a Lives of great religious books | |
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