Learning to Read Talmud : : What It Looks Like and How It Happens / / Jane L. Kanarek, Marjorie Lehman.

Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucid...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations, tables
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
  • CHAPTER 1. Stop Making Sense: Using Text Study Guides to Help Students Learn to Read Talmud
  • CHAPTER 2. Looking for Problems: A Pedagogic Quest for Difficulties
  • CHAPTER 3. What Others Have to Say: Secondary Readings in Learning to Read Talmud
  • CHAPTER 4. And No One Gave the Torah to the Priests: Reading the Mishnah’s References to the Priests and the Temple
  • CHAPTER 5. Talmud for Non-Rabbis: Teaching Graduate Students in the Academy
  • CHAPTER 6. When Cultural Assumptions about Texts and Reading Fail: Teaching Talmud as Liberal Arts
  • CHAPTER 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s Classroom
  • CHAPTER 8. Talmud that Works Your Heart: New Approaches to Reading
  • POSTSCRIPT. What We Have Learned about Learning to Read Talmud
  • Contributors
  • Index