The Talmud : : A Biography / / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer.
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe 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 matt...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
28 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Talmud- Essential, Enhanced, and Emblematic
- Chapter 1. Gestation and Birth (Essential Talmud Part One)
- Chapter 2. Anatomy (Essential Talmud Part Two)
- Chapter 3. Election: How the Talmud'S Discourse Developed (Enhanced Talmud)
- Chapter 4. Rivals, Naysayers, Imitators, and Critics (Emblematic Talmud)
- Chapter 5. Golden Old Age: Talmud in Modernity- Three Stories
- Notes
- Index