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Author : Abraham Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Talmud
ISBN : PRNC:32101068132156
Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801882656
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 : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801897467
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 : David Weiss Halivni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199876488
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 : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247244
In A Traveling Homeland, Daniel Boyarin makes the case that the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto producing and defining the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity in the form of textual, interpretive communities built around talmudic study.
Author : Lynn Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108423236
Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.
Author : Markham J. Geller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304895
The material culture of the Babylonian Talmud remains an important question in the absence of any archaeological finds from Jewish Babylonia. In The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, Markham Geller explores the links between Jewish Babylonia and Israel.
Author : Judith Z. Abrams
Publisher : Studies in Judaism
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015055827433
Though the Babylonian Talmud is often cited at the foundation on which Judaism stands, Abrams, who teaches the Talmud to adults, says it remains inaccessible to most Jews because its composition does not follow the rules of Western writing. To help beginning learners, she identifies previously-formed blocks of material that could have been placed anywhere in the Bavli, and analyzes why they are placed where they are. She includes a glossary without pronunciation guides. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Shai Secunda
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812209044
Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai Secunda pieces together the dynamic world of late antique Iran, providing an unprecedented and accessible overview of the world that shaped the Bavli. Secunda unites the fields of Talmudic scholarship with Old Iranian studies to enable a fresh look at the heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities of pre-Islamic Iran. He analyzes the intercultural dynamics between the Jews and their Persian Zoroastrian neighbors, exploring the complex processes and modes of discourse through which these groups came into contact and considering the ways in which rabbis and Zoroastrian priests perceived one another. Placing the Bavli and examples of Middle Persian literature side by side, the Zoroastrian traces in the former and the discursive and Talmudic qualities of the latter become evident. The Iranian Talmud introduces a substantial and essential shift in the field, setting the stage for further Irano-Talmudic research.
Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107023017
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 : Yishai Kiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107155510
This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.
Author : Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889207264
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a “master.” This book examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalized rhetoric which pervades the Babylonian Talmud. It explores, first, how the editors of the Talmud employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalized linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the Talmud’s (renowned) dialectical, analytic “essays.” Second, the work considers the social meanings implicitly communicated by the use of this rhetoric, which not only provided an authoritative model for modes of thought and for treatment of earlier authoritative Judaic tradition, but also reflected, reinforced or helped engender new social definitions. Through comparison of the Talmud’s rhetoric with that of other, earlier rabbinic documents and by placing the editing of the Talmud against the backdrop of the social and political situation of Rabbinism in the Late Persian Empire, the book relates the Talmud’s creation and promulgation to a major shift in Rabbinism’s understanding of the social role, “rabbi,” and to the emergence and ascendancy of the talmudic academy (the Yeshiva) as the primary institution of Rabbinism toward the end of Late Antiquity. In its agenda, and methodological and theoretical perspectives, The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud brings together the insights and tools of historical, literary and rhetorical analysis of the New Testament and of early rabbinic literature, on the one hand, and the sociological and anthropological study of religion, on the other.
Author : Leopold Auerbach
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465576620
Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021842400
This new edition of the Babylonian Talmud Tract Sanhedrin provides an authoritative translation and critical commentary on one of the most important texts in Jewish literature. The volume includes extensive footnotes and references to other rabbinical literature, making it an essential resource for scholars and lay readers alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson,Isaac Mayer Wise,Godfrey Taubenhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Talmud
ISBN : UIUC:30112041854982