The essential Talmud /
Steinsaltz, Adin,
The essential Talmud / [print] Adin Steinsaltz ; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai. - New York : Basic Books, [(c)1976. - vi, 296 pages ; 22 cm.
Translation of ha-Talmud la-kol.
HISTORY. What is the Talmud? ; The oral law : the first generations ; The oral law : the era of the zugot (pairs) ; The Tannaim ; The compilation of the Mishnah ; The Amoraim in Babylonia ; The Amoraim in Palestine ; The redaction of the Babylonian Talmud ; Talmudic exegesis ; The printing of the Talmud ; The persecution and banning of the Talmud STRUCTURE AND CONTENT. The structure of the Talmud ; The subject matter of the Talmud ; Prayers and benedictions ; The Sabbath ; The festivals ; Marriage and divorce ; The status of women ; Civil law ; Criminal law ; Sacrifices ; Dietary laws ; Ritual purity and impurity ; Ethics and Halakhah ; Derekh eretz (deportment) ; The world of mysticism METHOD. Midrash (Halakhic exegesis) ; The Talmudic way of thinking ; Strange and bizarre problems ; Methods of study ; The Talmud and the Halakhah ; Aggadah in the Talmud ; What is a scholar? ; The Talmud's importance for the people ; The Talmud has never been completed ; Appendix : order and tractates of the Mishnah and Talmud.
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75036384
Talmud--Introductions.
BM503.5.S823.E874 1976
The essential Talmud / [print] Adin Steinsaltz ; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai. - New York : Basic Books, [(c)1976. - vi, 296 pages ; 22 cm.
Translation of ha-Talmud la-kol.
HISTORY. What is the Talmud? ; The oral law : the first generations ; The oral law : the era of the zugot (pairs) ; The Tannaim ; The compilation of the Mishnah ; The Amoraim in Babylonia ; The Amoraim in Palestine ; The redaction of the Babylonian Talmud ; Talmudic exegesis ; The printing of the Talmud ; The persecution and banning of the Talmud STRUCTURE AND CONTENT. The structure of the Talmud ; The subject matter of the Talmud ; Prayers and benedictions ; The Sabbath ; The festivals ; Marriage and divorce ; The status of women ; Civil law ; Criminal law ; Sacrifices ; Dietary laws ; Ritual purity and impurity ; Ethics and Halakhah ; Derekh eretz (deportment) ; The world of mysticism METHOD. Midrash (Halakhic exegesis) ; The Talmudic way of thinking ; Strange and bizarre problems ; Methods of study ; The Talmud and the Halakhah ; Aggadah in the Talmud ; What is a scholar? ; The Talmud's importance for the people ; The Talmud has never been completed ; Appendix : order and tractates of the Mishnah and Talmud.
0465020607 9780465020607 0465020631 9780465020638
75036384
Talmud--Introductions.
BM503.5.S823.E874 1976