Louis Jacobs was Rabbi at New London Synagogue until his death in 2006. In the year of his death he was voted ""Greatest British Jew"" by a poll of Jewish Chronicle Readers conducted to mark the 350th anniversary of the entry of the Jews into England under Oliver Cromwell. His latest books, Jewish Preaching and Judaism and Theology, were both published in 2004.
Preface
List of abbreviations
The Babylonian Talmud: an introductory note
1. How much of the Babylonian Talmud is pseudepigraphic?
2. The Babylonian Talmud: an academic work
3. Rabbinic views on the order and authorship of the Biblical books
4. Literary analysis of the sugya in Bava Kama 11a-12b
5. Literary analysis of the sugya in Bava Kama 20a-21a
6. Literary analysis of the sugya on taking the blame on oneself
7. Literary analysis of the sugya of 'half and half'
8. Rabbi Joshua b. Hananiah and the elders of the house of Athens
9. Bavli and Yerushalmi on Rabban Gamaliel and Rabbi Joshua
10. Bavli and Yerushalmi on Rabbi Dosa and the Sages
11. The Rabbi Banaah stories in Bava Batra 58a-b
12. The device of addehakhi, 'just then'
13. Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography.
