Why Study Talmud In The Twenty First Century

Author : Paul Socken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 073914202X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century? written by Paul Socken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since religion in general and Judaism in particular are relevant in the twenty-first century, this book serves as an assessment of the Talmud's role in our religious and educational experience. This collection of essays demonstrates that the two-thousand-year-old Talmud remains the indispensable and foundational text for Jewish study. Eminent scholars from Israel and North America relate their encounters with this ancient, complex source in an accessible and personal manner.

Author : Paul Socken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739142004
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century? written by Paul Socken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's world. In this edited volume, sixteen eminent North American and Israeli scholars from several schools of Jewish thought grapple with the text and tradition of Talmud, talking personally about their own reasons for studying it. Each of these scholars and teachers believes that Talmud is indispensible to any serious study of modern Judaism and so each essay challenges the reader to engage in his or her own individual journey of discovery. The diverse feminist, rabbinic, educational, and philosophical approaches in this collection are as varied as the contributors' experiences. Their essays are accessible, personal accounts of their individual discovery of the Talmud, reflecting the vitality and profundity of modern religious thought and experience.

Author : Judith Z. Abrams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1568214634
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learn Talmud written by Judith Z. Abrams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice. Rabbi Abrams has chosen to work with the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, edited and with commentary by Adin Steinsaltz, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume is a must for both student and teacher.

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827614373
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Truth written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and illuminating their relevance. Delving into both rabbinic life (the academy, master-disciple relationships) and Jewish life under Roman and Persian rule (persecution, taxation, marketplaces), Rubenstein explains how storytellers used irony, wordplay, figurative language, and other art forms to communicate their intended messages. Each close reading demonstrates the story’s continuing relevance through the generations into modernity. For example, the story “Showdown in Court,” a confrontation between King Yannai and the Rabbinic judges, provides insights into controversial struggles in U.S. history to balance governmental power; the story of Honi’s seventy-year sleep becomes a window into the indignities of aging. Through the prism of Talmud tales, Rubenstein also offers timeless insights into suffering, beauty, disgust, heroism, humor, love, sex, truth, and falsehood. By connecting twenty-first-century readers to past generations, The Land of Truth helps to bridge the divide between modern Jews and the traditional narrative worlds of their ancestors.

Author : Henry Abramson
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781583309063
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Talmud written by Henry Abramson and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209227
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Talmud written by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia.0Providing a concise biography of this quintessential work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the Talmud's prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity. He describes the book's origins and structure, its centrality to Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has come to be venerated--but also excoriated and maligned-in the centuries since it first appeared.0An incomparable introduction to a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics.

Author : Michael Rosenak
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810588
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roads to the Palace written by Michael Rosenak and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins a series in which scholars from the main denominations and humanist thinkers identify major questions and issues concerning the education of individuals and communities and the discourse between cultures and faiths from theological and non-materialist perspectives. Rosenak (Jewish education, Hebrew U.-Jerusalem) discusses the texts and methods used for passing on Jewish religious and social values. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Léon Buskens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789048528189
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century written by Léon Buskens and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.

Author : Talya Fishman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204980
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming the People of the Talmud written by Talya Fishman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud—which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later—precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena—the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud—were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life.

Author : Michael Levi Rodkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Talmud, from the Time of Its Formation, about 200 B. C., Up to the Present Time ... written by Michael Levi Rodkinson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: