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.
9780465020607 9780465020638
75036384
Talmud--Introductions.
BM503.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.
9780465020607 9780465020638
75036384
Talmud--Introductions.
BM503.S823.E874 1976