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The Talmud : a biography /
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Lives of great religious books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE: The Talmud-Essential, Enhanced, and Emblematic; CHAPTER 1: Gestation and Birth (Essential Talmud Part One); CHAPTER 2: Anatomy (Essential Talmud Part Two); CHAPTER 3: Election: How the Talmud's Discourse Developed (Enhanced Talmud); CHAPTER 4: Rivals, Naysayers, Imitators, and Critics (Emblematic Talmud); CHAPTER 5: Golden Old Age: Talmud in Modernity-Three Stories; NOTES; INDEX.