The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

By Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (editor), Martin S. Jaffee (editor),

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This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.…

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1 author picked The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Joshua A. Fogel

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The collection of essay on the Talmud and early rabbinic literature is part of the immense “Companion” series that Cambridge University Press has been bringing out for some time. I have read their volume on baseball and the Beatles and one or two more. Each one of the essays in the Talmud volume is astonishingly insightful and, not always concomitant, a delight to read. These are not the usual words associated with the Talmud. In short, I enjoyed it immensely.

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