Essential Papers on the Talmud

Book Overview

No work has informed Jewish life and history more than the Talmud. This unique and vast collection of teachings and traditions contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 B.C.E.) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 C.E.). This volume adds the insights of modern talmudic scholarship and criticism to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715052
• ISBN13: 9780814715055
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"