The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (Revised)

by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882656
• ISBN13: 9780801882654
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher