Essential Papers on the Talmud

No work has informed Jewish life and history more than the Babylonian Talmud. This unique and vast collection of teachings and traditions contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c. 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE). This volume adds the insights of modern Talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented works which seek to open the Talmudic heritage and tradition to contemporary readers. Collected here in one volume are some of the most central essays published in the area of Talmudic study by such eminent scholars as Robert Goldenberg, Jacob Neusner, Boaz Cohen, Meyer S. Feldblum, and many others. Selections elucidate the Talmud's history, sources, arguments and methods and explain its relationship with the Palestinian Talmud. They also provide a taste of the myriad ways in which Talmudic study can intersect with such diverse disciplines as economics, business ethics, history, ethics, law, literary criticism, and philosophy.Chernick, Michael is the author of 'Essential Papers on the Talmud' with ISBN 9780814715055 and ISBN 0814715052.