David C. Kraemer

A History of the Talmud

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is no more influential Jewish work than the Talmud. Discover its history and enduring impact in this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481366
• ISBN-10: 1108481361
• Artikelnr.: 55293073

Autorenporträt

David C. Kraemer is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He is the author of Mind of the Talmud (1990) and Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why a history of the Talmud?
2. Before the rabbis
3. The emergence of the Mishnah
4. What is the Mishnah?
5. The reception of the Mishnah
6. The first Talmud: the Yerushalmi
7. Jews in Babylonia and the emergence of the Babylonian Talmud (the Balvi)
8. What is the Balvi?
9. The reception of the Balvi
10. The Talmud and early modernity
11. The Talmud in modernity and beyond.