While the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is the cornerstone of Judaism, it is the Talmud that provides many of the central values which Jews live by today. We find important ethical principles in the Torah and...
This book shows that the disputes that characterize Rabbinic writings in the formative age underscore the coherence of Rabbinic Judaism. It is in three separate monographs. The first shows that disagr...
Drawing on his own recent translation, Neusner introduces The Mishnah, the 2nd century classic codification of oral Jewish law, explaining its internal logic and structure, and its relevance to modern...
Provides four detailed understandings of the nature and scope of the Babylonian Talmud, outlining the state-of-the-art studies of the subject as well as some problems still awaiting solution, such as ...
Next to the Bible itself, the Talmud is hailed as the greatest literary achievement of the Jewish people. Composed in Palestine and Babylonia over fifteen centuries ago, the two encyclopedic works tha...
What does Jewish tradition say about the way we do business? Talmud for Everyday Living: Insights into Buying and Selling can help answer these questions and more. In his second book of the Talmud f...
Jonathan Schofer offers the first theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethnic in several decades. Centering on one influential anthology, The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan, Jonathan Schofe...
The problematic literary relationship among the Synoptic Gospels has given rise to numerous theories of authorship and priority. Rethinking the Synoptic Problem familiarizes readers with the main posi...
Alexander Samely surveys the corpus of rabbinic literature, which was written in Hebrew and Aramaic about 1500 years ago and which contains the foundations of Judaism, in particular the Talmud. The ra...
The Ethics of the Sages: An Interfaith Commentary on Pirkei Avot examines the profound teachings of one of the most well-known and beloved texts of Jewish life from the standpoints of other religious ...
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