Stories Of The Babylonian Talmud

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801897467

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Stories of the Babylonian Talmud by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Pdf

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein continues his grand exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages, offering deep and complex analysis of eight stories from the Babylonian Talmud to reconstruct the cultural and religious world of the Babylonian rabbinic academy. Rubenstein combines a close textual and literary examination of each story with a careful comparison to earlier versions from other rabbinic compilations. This unique approach provides insight not only into the meaning and content of the current forms of the stories but also into how redactors reworked those earlier versions to address contemporary moral and religious issues. Rubenstein's analysis uncovers the literary methods used to compose the Talmud and sheds light on the cultural and theological perspectives of the Stammaim—the anonymous editor-redactors of the Babylonian Talmud. Rubenstein also uses these stories as a window into understanding more broadly the culture of the late Babylonian rabbinic academy, a hierarchically organized and competitive institution where sages studied the Torah. Several of the stories Rubenstein studies here describe the dynamics of life in the academy: master-disciple relationships, collegiality and rivalry, and the struggle for leadership positions. Others elucidate the worldview of the Stammaim, including their perspectives on astrology, theodicy, and revelation. The third installment of Rubenstein’s trilogy of works on the subject, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud is essential reading for all students of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism.

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801861462

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Talmudic Stories by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Pdf

The book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801882656

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The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Pdf

In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and who had passed on their teachings to students individually or in small and informal groups, the anonymous redactors of the Bavli were part of a large institution with a distinctive, isolated, and largely undocumented culture. The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud explores the cultural world of these Babylonian rabbis and their students through the prism of the stories they included in the Bavli, showing how their presentation of earlier rabbinic teachings was influenced by their own values and practices. Among the topics explored in this broad-ranging work are the hierarchical structure of the rabbinic academy, the use of dialectics in teaching, the functions of violence and shame within the academy, the role of lineage in rabbinic leadership, the marital and family lives of the rabbis, and the relationship between the rabbis and the rest of the Jewish population. This book provides a unique and new perspective on the formative years of rabbinic Judaism and will be essential reading for all students of the Talmud. -- Michael Satlow, Brown University

Author : David Weiss Halivni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199876488

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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni Pdf

David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian Talmud. Halivni presents the summation of a lifetime of scholarship and the conclusions of his multivolume Talmudic commentary, Sources and Traditions (Meqorot umesorot). Arguing against the traditional view that the Talmud was composed c. 450 CE by the last of the named sages in the Talmud, the Amoraim, Halivni proposes that its formation took place over a much longer period of time, not reaching its final form until about 750 CE. The Talmud consists of many literary strata or layers, with later layers commenting upon and reinterpreting earlier layers. The later layers differ qualitatively from the earlier layers, and were composed by anonymous sages whom Halivni calls Stammaim. These sages were the true author-editors of the Talmud. They reconstructed the reasons underpinning earlier rulings, created the dialectical argumentation characteristic of the Talmud, and formulated the literary units that make up the Talmudic text. Halivni also discusses the history and development of rabbinic tradition from the Mishnah through the post-Talmudic legal codes, the types of dialectical analysis found in the different rabbinic works, and the roles of reciters, transmitters, compilers, and editors in the composition of the Talmud. This volume contains an introduction and annotations by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein.

Author : Lynn Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108423236

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Time in the Babylonian Talmud by Lynn Kaye Pdf

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827614352

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The Land of Truth by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Pdf

Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and illuminating their relevance. Delving into both rabbinic life (the academy, master-disciple relationships) and Jewish life under Roman and Persian rule (persecution, taxation, marketplaces), Rubenstein explains how storytellers used irony, wordplay, figurative language, and other art forms to communicate their intended messages. Each close reading demonstrates the story's continuing relevance through the generations into modernity. For example, the story "Showdown in Court," a confrontation between King Yannai and the Rabbinic judges, provides insights into controversial struggles in U.S. history to balance governmental power; the story of Honi's seventy-year sleep becomes a window into the indignities of aging. Through the prism of Talmud tales, Rubenstein also offers timeless insights into suffering, beauty, disgust, heroism, humor, love, sex, truth, and falsehood. By connecting twenty-first-century readers to past generations, The Land of Truth helps to bridge the divide between modern Jews and the traditional narrative worlds of their ancestors.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004508958

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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by Jacob Neusner Pdf

Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:a41000917

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New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud by Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus Pdf

Author : A. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107676954

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The Babylonian Talmud by A. Cohen Pdf

Originally published in 1921, this book presents the text of the Talmud, Tractate Berakhot in an English translation, with a detailed introduction, commentary, glossary and indices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Judaism, translations of the Talmud and theology.

Author : Haim Weiss,Shira Stav
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812298246

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The Return of the Absent Father by Haim Weiss,Shira Stav Pdf

The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here reveal an additional layer of meaning to the father figure's role within the family structure. By shifting the spotlight from the couple to the drama of the father's relationship with his sons and daughters, they present a more complex tension between mundane domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning represented by the study house. This coauthored book presents a dialogic encounter between Weiss, a scholar of rabbinic literature, and Stav, a scholar of modern Hebrew literary studies. Working together, they have produced a book resonant in its melding of the scholarly norms of rabbinics with a literary interpretation based in feminist and psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691209227

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The Talmud by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer Pdf

The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia.0Providing a concise biography of this quintessential work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the Talmud's prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity. He describes the book's origins and structure, its centrality to Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has come to be venerated--but also excoriated and maligned-in the centuries since it first appeared.0An incomparable introduction to a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics.

Author : Haim Weiss,Shira Stav
Publisher : Divinations: Rereading Late An
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812253639

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The Return of the Absent Father by Haim Weiss,Shira Stav Pdf

The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here reveal an additional layer of meaning to the father figure's role within the family structure. By shifting the spotlight from the couple to the drama of the father's relationship with his sons and daughters, they present a more complex tension between mundane domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning represented by the study house. This coauthored book presents a dialogic encounter between Weiss, a scholar of rabbinic literature, and Stav, a scholar of modern Hebrew literary studies. Working together, they have produced a book resonant in its melding of the scholarly norms of rabbinics with a literary interpretation based in feminist and psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Ruth Calderon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612099

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A Bride for One Night by Ruth Calderon Pdf

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107023017

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Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Pdf

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Author : Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:07028727

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New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, English Translation by Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus Pdf