Essential Papers on the Talmud

Illuminating the Talmud's history, sources, arguments, and methods, this volume adds the insights of modern Talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented works. Collected here in one volume are essential essays published in the area of Talmudic study by Jacob Neusner, Robert Goldenberg, Louis Ginzberg, and others.

About the author

Michael Chernick is Deutch Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice, Hebrew Union College -- Jewish Institute of Religion.

Summary

A collection of teachings and traditions that contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE).

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Chernick (Editor), Chi-Yun Shin (Editor), Julian Stringer (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1994
• EAN: 9780814715055
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1505-5
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 649 g
• Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Stu; Essential Papers on Jewish Studies; Essential Papers on Jewish Stu; Essential Papers on Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism