The Reader s Guide to the Talmud

Release on 2001 | by Jacob Neusner

Part iii . A Topical and Methodical Outline of Sifré to Deuteronomy The Components of the Rabbinic Documents : From the Whole to the Parts . VIII . Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael . Atlanta , 1997 : Scholars Press for USF Academic ...

Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004121870
Category: Religion
Page: 374
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The Reader s Guide to the Talmud

This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) answers basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing? Turning to questions of modes of thought, the account proceeds to address the intellectual character of the Bavli and in particular the character and uses of its dialectics. Finally, questions of substance come to the fore: how does the Talmud relate to the Torah? and how does tradition enter in? These basic questions of rhetoric, topic, and logic that anyone approaching the text will raise are dealt with clearly and authoritatively.

The Reader s Guide to the Talmud

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