Download or read book Judaism Postbiblical and Talmudic Period written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1954 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism postbiblical and Talmudic period ed written by Joseph Leon Blau and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proselytism in the Talmudic Period written by Bernard Jacob Bamberger and published by New York : KTAV Publishing House. This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism Postbiblical and Talmudic Period written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Talmud written by David C. Kraemer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the Talmud in Judaism and beyond. Yet its difficult language and its assumptions, so distant from modern sensibilities, render it inaccessible to most readers. In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. Tracing the Talmud's origins and its often controversial status through history, he bases his work on the most recent historical and literary scholarship while making no assumptions concerning the reader's prior knowledge. Kraemer also examines the continuities and shifts of the Talmud over time and space. His work will provide scholars and students with an unprecedented understanding of one of the world's great classics and the spirit that animates it.
Download or read book Judaism Postbiblical and Talmudic Period Edited by Salo W Baron and Joseph L Blau written by Joseph Léon Blau and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Cup of Life written by Albert Isaac Polack and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epitome of Post biblical History for Jewish American Sabbath schools written by Sigmund Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maimonides and the Biblical Prophets written by Israel Drazin and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and informative book reveals unknown but true facts about the prophetical books of the Bible. Rabbis have avoided many questions raised by the seemingly improbable events in these volumes. This book addresses these questions and takes an open and rational look at the episodes. The book addresses provocative questions such as: What is the proper way to interpret the Torah? How does Maimonides understand the episodes of the Prophets? Did miracles such as the splitting of the Red Sea, the falling of the walls at Jericho, and the sun standing still for Joshua really occur? What assumptions cause us to misunderstand the Bible? Is there a biblical mandate prohibiting suicide? Does the Bible forbid ceding parts of the land of Israel for peace? Can children be punished for their parents misdeeds, and, if not, why does the Torah say that they are punished? Why does Shabbat begin at different times for men and women? Why did significant biblical leaders violate rabbinical laws? What really caused the adding of a day to holidays shortly after the time of Moses? Why does the Bible not always mean what it appears to say? Is it true that Judaism does not know what happens after death?
Download or read book Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period written by Peter Richardson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period—especially in Judaism—has been a key issue among scholars in recent years. This thought-provoking work is the first full-scale attempt to write a historical assessment of the scholarly debate concerning this question, focussing on two closely related religious communities, Judaism and Christianity. By juxtaposing the two religions, a clearer understanding of the developments with respect to torah and nomos in Judaism and early Christianity emerges. This insightful work, placing emphasis on the major figures and both the scholarly lines of development and the appropriate lines for future research, will set the debate in a clearer and more and succinct manner. It will serve as a critical point of reference for further discussion.
Download or read book Time in the Babylonian Talmud written by Lynn Kaye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.
Download or read book The Palestinian Talmud written by Louis Ginzberg and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time and Process in Ancient Judaism written by Sacha Stern and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stern (Jewish studies, U. of London) searched all the ancient Jewish sources, looking for indications that time was linear or cyclical or both, was absolute or relative, whether saving time was ethical and wasting it not, and so forth. He found no indications of any of it, and concluded that the peo
Download or read book Post Biblical Jewish Studies written by Vermes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Post Biblical History Through Great Personalities written by Adele Bildersee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jewish Post-Biblical History Through Great Personalities: From Jochanan Ben Zakkai Through Moses Mendelssohn This little book, as any one with even the slightest knowledge of Jewish history and literature will readily see, is in no sense original. It is little more than a compilation of the better-known works on Jewish life and letters in post-Biblical times. If, then, one asks why such a book should be written at all, the answer is that the writer, in many years of experience as a teacher, has found no work on this subject suitable for practical use in the classroom. The books that glow with all the pageantry of history and with the color of a delightful style are lacking, from the point of view of the classroom, in analysis of material and system in presenting facts. The books that display scholarly erudition pile up details to the bewilderment of the average pupil. Accordingly in this book the effort has been to select from the pages of post-Biblical Jewish history the outstanding personalities; to present the life and work of each in such a way as to illustrate the spirit of Judaism in his time; in doing this, to analyze and systematize the complex and abstract subject-matter so that it may offer the fewest difficulties to the pupil's mind; and yet not to sacrifice the warm human interest that should transfigure even the barest outline of "the grandest poem of all time - the history of the Jews." And throughout the history, from beginning to end, it has been the aim to bring out clearly the guiding principles of the Jewish spirit: the Law by which it lives, the hope of the Future towards which it works, and the conception of the universality of religion, in which it follows in the footsteps of its most sublime prophets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Rewriting the Bible written by Betsy Halpern Amaru and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land is so central to the Hebrew scriptures that it might be described as themajor theme of this literature. This intriguing study "rewrites" the Bible onthe issue of the Land, and provides a revelation of how a religious traditionwas actualized to make it meaningful within new situations.
