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 :
Princeton University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books
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Table of Contents:
- 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