Swimming in the Sea of Talmud

Swimming in the Sea of Talmud
Author: Michael Katz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0827606079

A clear, accessible guide to reading and understanding the Talmud. This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the Talmud and suggest ways to apply its messages and values to contemporary life. Imaginatively conceived, this volume is recommended for both individuals and group study sessions.

The Origins of the Seder

The Origins of the Seder
Author: Baruch M. Bokser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520317378

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Tales for the Soul

Tales for the Soul
Author: Yair Weinstock
Publisher: Mesorah Publications
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999
Genre: Hasidic parables
ISBN: 9781578192861

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud
Author: Aaron Parry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781592572021

An introduction to the Talmud describes such topics as its contents, the relationship between science and medicine and Talmudic philosophy, the Talmudic lifestyle, and blessings found in the Talmud

Tosefta Berachot

Tosefta Berachot
Author: Eliyahu Gurevich
Publisher: Eliyahu Gurevich
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0557389852

The Tosefta is an ancient Jewish legal text that comprises a second compilation of the Oral law. This edition of the Tosefta, Tractate Berachot, is the first of its kind with an introduction, the edited Hebrew text based on ancient manuscripts, an English translation, and a comprehensive commentary in English. The author and translator, Eliyahu Gurevich, is an American-Israeli scholar, and creator of seforimonline.org and toseftaonline.org.

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)
Author: Marvin J. Heller
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1605
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004186387

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.

Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land

Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land
Author: Donald E. Wagner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 162564406X

A critical examination of political Zionism, a topic often considered taboo in the West, is long overdue. Moreover, the discussion of Christian Zionism is usually confined to Evangelical and fundamentalist settings. The present volume will break the silence currently reigning in many religious, political, and academic circles and, in so doing, will provoke and inspire a new, challenging conversation on theological and ethical issues arising from various aspects of Zionism--a conversation that is vital to the quest for a just peace in Israel and Palestine. The eight authors offer a rich diversity of religious faith, academic research, and practical experience, as they represent all three Abrahamic faiths and five different Christian traditions. Among the many themes that run through Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land is the contrast between exclusivist narratives, both biblical and political, and the more inclusive narratives of the prophetic Scriptures, which provide the theological foundation and the moral imperative for human liberation. Readers will be drawn into a compelling, readable, and stimulating series of essays that tackle many of the complex issues that still confound clergy, politicians, diplomats, and academic experts.

Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume One

Rabbinic Narrative: A Documentary Perspective, Volume One
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047402200

Each Rabbinic document, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, defines itself by a unique combination of indicative traits of rhetoric, topic, and particular logic that governs its coherent discourse. But narratives in the same canonical compilations do not conform to the documentary indicators that govern in these compilations, respectively. They form an anomaly for the documentary reading of the Rabbinic canon of the formative age. To remove that anomaly, this project classifies the types and forms of narratives and shows that particular documents exhibit distinctive preferences among those types. This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types of Rabbinic narrative, including the authentic narrative, the ma'aseh and the mashal. How the traits of the several types of narratives shift as the respective types move from document to document is spelled out in complete detail. This project opens an entirely new road toward the documentary analysis of Rabbinic narrative. It fills out an important chapter in the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon in the formative age.