Download or read book SCIENCE OF THE TALMUD written by Charles M. Boerman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Science of the Talmud: An Essay Written for the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia Under the Seleucidean kings of Syria, into whose hands Palestine fell after the death of Alexander of Macedon, the Jews, being cruelly oppressed and hindered in their religious rites and services, rose in revolt under the Maccabees and regained their independence, but, alas! Only for a short time. Jerusalem was shortly taken by Roman arms under Pompey, and Judea was soon afterward reduced to a Roman province. Several attempts were made by the brave Jews to shake off the yoke of the Romans, but it was impossible for them to withstand the most powerful empire that ever existed. So the temple was destroyed by Titus, and Jeru salem laid waste, and finally the population was decimated, exiled and taken into captivity under the Emperor Hadrian. During all these vicissitudes and changes of fortune which befell Israel from the time of the birth of the nation, the moral and religious life of the people grew slowly but steadily in strength, depth and breadth. The law which, according to tradition, was proclaimed to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai, remained for along time a dead letter, the people preferring the image of the golden calf, and the brazen serpent, and the service of Baal, Moloch and Ashtoreth, to the abstract idea of an unseen, unknow able, infinite and everlasting Supreme Being. All through the period of the Judges and during the greater portion of the reign of the Kings, the people continued to serve heathen gods and to sacrifice to them. But gradually dawn broke upon them and the light of a truer religion opened their eyes, and with the more enlightened belief came also purer ideas of morality and justice. The great prophets appeared in the arena. Isaiah, with his grand moral perceptions, his clear religious ideas, his divine gift of elo quence, spoke words which could not fail to pierce the hearts of the feeling, so that all in Israel who had eyes saw the light, and all who had ears heard the words of truth. Jeremiah in Jeru salem and Ezekiel in Babylon, and especially the great unknown prophet, whose divine speeches are attached to those of Isaiah, continued the work of teaching the people true religion and pure morals. 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 The Science of the Talmud written by Charles M. Boerman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rain and Resurrection How the Talmud and Science Read the World written by Irun Cohen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of essays interpreting excerpts from the Talmud that illustrate values essential to Western science. It includes another set of essays interpreting the function of interpretation in the method of science, to associate Talmudic and post-modern concepts.
Download or read book The Talmud A Personal Take written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Daniel Boyarin's previously uncollected essays on the Talmud represents the different methods and lines of inquiry that have animated his work on that text over the last four decades. Ranging and changing from linguistic work to work on sex and gender to the relations between formative Judaism and Christianity to the literary genres of the Talmud in the Hellenistic context, he gives an account of multiple questions and provocations to which that prodigious book gives stimulation, showing how the Talmud can contribute to all of these fields. The book opens up possibilities for study of the Talmud using historical, classical, philological, anthropological, cultural studies, gender, and literary theory and criticism. As a kind of intellectual autobiography, it is a record of the alarums and excursions of a life in the Talmud.
Download or read book Essential Papers on the Talmud written by Michael Chernick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the Talmud's history, sources, arguments, and methods, this volume adds the insights of modern Talmudic scholarship and criticism to the growing number of more traditionally oriented works. Collected here in one volume are essential essays published in the area of Talmudic study by Jacob Neusner, Robert Goldenberg, Louis Ginzberg, and others.
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.
Download or read book The Talmud Classic Reprint written by Joseph Barclay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Talmud Hebrew literature contains some of the most profound and most influential productions of the human spirit. It constitutes a potent factor in modem civilization, and possesses merits which place it far above most other litera
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Talmud written by Hyam Maccoby and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new presentation of the philosophy of the Talmud. The Talmud is not a work of formal philosophy, but much of what it says is relevant to philosophical enquiry, including issues explored in contemporary debates. In particular, the Talmud has original ideas about the relation between universal ethics and the ethics of a particular community. This leads into a discussion on the relation between morality and ritual, and also about the epistemological role of tradition. The book explains the paradoxes of Talmudic Judaism as arising from a philosophy of revolution, stemming from Jewish origins as a band of escaped slaves, determined not to reproduce the slave-society of Egypt. From this arises a daring humanism, and an emphasis on justice in this world rather than on other-worldly spirituality. A strong emphasis on education and the cultivation of rationality also stems from this. Governing the discussion is a theory of logic that differs significantly from Greek logic. Talmudic logic is one of analogy, not classification and is peculiarly suited to discussions of moral and legal human situations. This book will be of interest to those in the fields of philosophy, religion and the history of ideas, whether students, teachers and academics, or the interested general reader.
Download or read book The Mind of the Talmud written by David Charles Kraemer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions remain definitive today. Kraemer here examines the characteristic preference for argumentation and process over settled conclusions of the Bavli. By tracing the evolution of the argumentational style, he describes the distinct eras in the development of rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia. He then analyzes the meaning of the disputational form and concludes that the talmudic form implies the inaccessibility of perfect truth and that on account of this opinion, the pursuit of truth, in the characteristic talmudic concern for rabbinic process, becomes the ultimate act of rabbinic piety.
Download or read book The Science in Torah written by Leo Levi and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if the Talmudic sages were also scientists? And if so, why? Does today's scientific knowledge clash with the science of the Talmud? Do modern scientific discoveries influence halachah? For the first time, an eminent talmid chacham and renowned scientist delves into these vital issues. Topics include, among others, the shape of the earth, astrology and horoscopes, development of the fetus, and medicine. A detailed index and table of contents included.
Download or read book The Talmud written by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality 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. Providing 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. An 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 Introduction to the Talmud Classic Reprint written by Moses Mielziner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction to the Talmud A. Juxtaposition. B. Restrictions in the Application of Analogy. C. Limited or Unlimited Effect of an Analogy. D. Refu tation and Reinstatement of Hermeneutic Arguments. E. The Theory of Extension and Limitation. F. Mikra or Masora. 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 Reconstructing the Talmud written by Joshua Kulp and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) is a symphony of hundreds of voices, including legal rulings, folklore, biblical interpretations, and rabbinic legends. Each of these voices was originally issued in a distinct generation but was only "captured" and frozen in time by the Talmud's editors, who lived during the fifth through seventh centuries C.E. Reconstructing the Talmud introduces the modern Talmud student to the techniques developed over the last century for uncovering how this literature developed. Opening with an extended introduction outlining the methods employed by scholars to engage in such analysis, Reconstructing the Talmud proceeds with nine examples concretely demonstrating how such methods are applied to actual passages from the Bavli. Sorting out the layers of the Bavli, understanding each layer within its cultural and historical context, and comparing it with earlier sources, reveals a dynamic world of change, debate, halakhic diversity and development far richer and more nuanced than that which is evident in the static and fixed text of the printed edition. Reconstructing the Talmud introduces the reader to the world of academic Talmudic research and opens new venues of exploration and understanding of one of the world's great literary treasures.
Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud Classic Reprint written by Madison C. Peters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud While gathering the facts for Justice to the Jew, I chanced upon so many wise pro verbs, witty sayings, beautiful parables, and quaint legends of the Talmud, that I became intensely interested in this remarkable literary production of antiquity. In its twelve folio volumes it embodies the mental labors of the ancient Jewish teachers during the period of about eight hundred years. 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 The World of the Talmud written by Morris Adler and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
Download or read book The School System of the Talmud written by Baer Spiers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The School System of the Talmud: With a Sketch of the Talmudical Treatise Baba Kama HE first edition of the 'school System of the Talmud' was published in 1882, and was very favourably received by the general public, and also by the press, as may be seen by the opinions quoted at the end of the volume. That edition, however, being now entirely ex hansted, I have been asked by many interested in the education of the young to prepare a second. This task I have willingly undertaken, and have thoroughly revised the work and added some new matter and an introduction. I take the opportunity of expressing my best thanks to Mr. A. Feldman, b.a., and to my son, Mr. F. S. Spiers, b.sc., for having kindly assisted me in revising and correcting the proof sheets. 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 The Talmudic Argument written by Louis Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in detail a number of typical lengthy passages with a view to showing how Talmudic reasoning operates and how the Talmud was compiled by its final editors.
