How the Bavli is Constructed: Identifying the Forests Comprised by the Talmud's Trees

By Jacob Neusner

This book seeks to discern how the Talmud transforms isolated facts into cogent and coherent constructions: the forests formed by the Talmud's trees. Trees serve as facts out of any larger context, whereas "forests" mean whole paragraphs and larger constructions of though that is coherent in context and in sequence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761847081
• ISBN13: 9780761847083
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"