The essential Talmud
Book - 1976
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- Published
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New York :
Basic Books
c1976.
- Language
- English
Hebrew - Main Author
- Item Description
- Translation of ha-Talmud la-kol.
- Physical Description
- vi, 296 p. ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780465020607
- Part 1. History
- 1. What is the Talmud?
- 2. The Oral Law -- the First Generations
- 3. The Oral Law -- the Era of the Zugot (pairs)
- 4. The Tannaim
- 5. The Compilation of the Mishnah
- 6. The Amoraim in Babylonia
- 7. The Amoraim in Palestine
- 8. The Redaction of the Babylonian Talmud
- 9. Talmudic Exegesis
- 10. The Printing of the Talmud
- 11. The Persecution and Banning of the Talmud
- Part 2. Structure and Content
- 12. The Structure of the Talmud
- 13. The Subject Matter of the Talmud
- 14. Prayers and Benedictions
- 15. The Sabbath
- 16. The Festivals
- 17. Marriage and Divorce
- 18. The Status of Women
- 19. Civil Law
- 20. Criminal Law
- 21. Sacrifices
- 22. Dietary Laws
- 23. Ritual Purity and Impurity
- 24. Ethics and Halakhah
- 25. Derekh Eretz (deportment)
- 26. The World of Mysticism
- Part 3. Method
- 27. Midrash (halakhic Exegesis)
- 28. The Talmudic Way of Thinking
- 29. Strange and Bizarre Problems
- 30. Methods of Study
- 31. The Talmud and the Halakhah
- 32. Aggadah in the Talmud
- 33. What is a Scholar?
- 34. The Talmud's Importance for the People
- 35. The Talmud Has Never Been Completed
- Appendix
- Index