Talmud category: 61 books
by Lau, Binyamin
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
In The Sages, Vol. III: The Galilean Period, Binyamin Lau paints vivid portraits of the some of the most central figures in the Talmud: the disciples of Rabbi Akiva. Featured in every tractate of the Talmud, these charismatic personalities kept Jewish tradition alive after Rabbi Akiva's tragic execution....
Grains of Truth
Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk...
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural...
(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk...
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly difficult work that has accumulated countless...
by Arsene Darmesteter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The following passage from the biography of Arsene Darmesteter, prefixed to Volume I of his Reliques Scientifiques, deserves quotation, both on account of its criticism of Emanuel Deutsch's brilliant article on the Talmund, which originally appeared in the quarterly review for October, 1867, and as...
Le Talmud
Edition Age Digital
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Une exploration des générations d'orientation rabbin et obligations contractuelles filtrés à travers les valeurs Kabala, permettant une formulation claire et consice pour devotionment spirituelle.
"Peering Through the Lattices"
Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious thought that concerned Christendom, and today they are seen as having played a limited role in mystical or...
by Abraham Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Ancient Jewish Proverbs by Abraham Cohen
This entry in the Wisdom of the East series is a treasury of traditional Jewish proverbs, mostly extracted from the Talmud and Mishna.
Rabbinic Tales of Destruction
Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, Belser argues, our readings of rabbinic narrative must wrestle with the brutal body...
Other Others
The Political after the Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Offers an original and compelling treatment of what it means to resist the us/them dichotomy that plagues even the most liberal conventional accounts of politics.
The Written and Oral Torah
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1998
In The Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rabbi Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo offers those interested in Jewish tradition an explanation of and basic insight into Judaism's classical sources. Containing a diverse selection of material culled from the Talmud and from the writings of many...
by Avi Sion
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Judaic logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic is an original inquiry into the forms of thought determining Jewish law and belief, from the impartial perspective of a logician. Judaic Logic attempts to honestly estimate the extent to which the logic employed within Judaism...
Relics for the Present II
Contemporary Reflections on the Talmud: Berakhot II
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Relics for the Present is a collection of thought-provoking mini-essays that explore the parameters and depths of prayer. Using Tractate Berakhot as the foundational text, Rabbi Cooper utilizes a unique combination of Talmudic wisdom, rabbinical commentary and Hassidic lore, transforming ancient...