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Author : Henry Abramson
Release : 2006
Genre : Education in rabbinical literature
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Book Rating : 063/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading the Talmud by : Henry Abramson
Download or read book Reading the Talmud written by Henry Abramson. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adin Steinsaltz
Release : 1976
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 638/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Essential Talmud by : Adin Steinsaltz
Download or read book The Essential Talmud written by Adin Steinsaltz. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Israeli rabbi and scholar conveys the spirit of the Talmud as he treats its composition, traditions, structure, and laws
Author : Judith Z. Abrams
Release : 1995-10-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Learn Talmud by : Judith Z. Abrams
Download or read book Learn Talmud written by Judith Z. Abrams. This book was released on 1995-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice. Rabbi Abrams has chosen to work with the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, edited and with commentary by Adin Steinsaltz, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume is a must for both student and teacher.
Author : Paul Socken
Release : 2009
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century? by : Paul Socken
Download or read book Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century? written by Paul Socken. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's world. In this edited volume, sixteen eminent North American and Israeli scholars from several schools of Jewish thought grapple with the text and tradition of Talmud, talking personally about their own reasons for studying it. Each of these scholars and teachers believes that Talmud is indispensible to any serious study of modern Judaism and so each essay challenges the reader to engage in his or her own individual journey of discovery. The diverse feminist, rabbinic, educational, and philosophical approaches in this collection are as varied as the contributors' experiences. Their essays are accessible, personal accounts of their individual discovery of the Talmud, reflecting the vitality and profundity of modern religious thought and experience.
Author : Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Release : 2020-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Talmud by : Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Download or read book The Talmud written by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer. This book was released on 2020-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia.0Providing a concise biography of this quintessential work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the Talmud's prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity. He describes the book's origins and structure, its centrality to Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has come to be venerated--but also excoriated and maligned-in the centuries since it first appeared.0An incomparable introduction to a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics.
