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The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literaturthe Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature E (Cambridge Companions to Religion) by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert Publisher Comments This volume guides beginning students of Rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critical issues that contemporary scholars use when studying the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover 
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Why Is America Different? by Steven Katz Publisher Comments This book brings together a distinguished group of expert scholars from the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University on the main areas of American Jewish life, from colonial Jewish experience to images of Jews in contemporary films... (read more) List Price $38.99 Your price: $34.60 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Women of the Talmud by Judith Z. Abrams Publisher Comments In this unique volume Judith Abrams, author of the highly regarded series The Talmud for Beginners, examines the episodes recorded in rabbinic literature that suggest the actions of the women of those times.... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Talmud: What It Is and What It Says by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Wherever Jews have settled and whatever languages they spoke, they created a community with a single set of common values. One law, one theology defined the community throughout their many migrations. A single book explains how this came about-the Talmud.... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine by Richard Lee Kalmin Publisher Comments The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. What kind of society did these rabbis inhabit? What effect did that society have... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $55.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Publisher Comments Departing from the conventional view of mishnaic transmission as mindless rote memorisation, Transmitting Mishnah, first published in 2006, reveals how multifaceted the process of passing on oral tradition was in antiquity. Taking advantage of the... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Talmud's Theological Language-Game: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis by Eugene B. Borowitz Publisher Comments Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Structure and Form in the Babylonian Talmud by Louis Jacobs Publisher Comments This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The novel contribution made by Dr. Jacobs to the study of the Talmud consists in his concentration on the literary... (read more) Your price: $37.95 New - Trade Paper
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Values, Prosperity and the Talmud: Business Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis by Larry Kahaner Publisher Comments Praise for VALUES, PROSPERITY, AND THE TALMUD "The ancient wisdom of the Talmud is as relevant today as it was 1,500 years ago, and its advice about business?both tactical and ethical?is as applicable to our high-tech world as it was to their world of... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Halakhic Hermeneutics (Studies in Judaism) by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category... (read more) Your price: $107.75 New - Hardcover
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Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash by Nissan Rubin Publisher Comments Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time. The essays are the work of Nissan Rubin (one of them written in... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Trade Paper
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How the Halakhah Unfolds: Volume V: Hullin in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Bavli, Part Two: Mishnah, Tosefta, and Bavli, Chapters Seven Through Twe (Studies in Judaism) by Tzvee Zahavy Publisher Comments In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines. In this volume, the main points of the... (read more) Your price: $61.75 New - Trade Paper
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Structure and Form in the Babylonian Talmud by Louis Jacobs Publisher Comments This book attempts to uncover the basic form and structure of the Babylonian Talmud, a centrally important text in Jewish studies. The novel contribution made by Dr. Jacobs to the study of the Talmud consists in his concentration on the literary... (read more) Your price: $83.75 New - Hardcover
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A Guide to the Jerusalem Talmud by Heshey Zelcer Publisher Comments This book is a compilation and composition of the Jerusalem Talmud, the cultural, economic and political conditions in the Land of Israel during its development, the scholars who studied it throughout the generations, and a synopsis of their research and... (read more) List Price $30.56 Your price: $27.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Talmud: A Selection by Norman Solomon Publisher Comments The most important text in Judaism after the Old Testament- available for the first time in Penguin Classics One of the most significant religious texts in the world, The Talmud is a compilation of the teachings of major Jewish scholars from the classic... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rabbinic Stories (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Publisher Comments Stories from the main works of classical rabbinic literature, which were produced by Jewish sages in either Hebrew or Aramaic, between 200 and 600 CE.... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rabbinic Stories by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Publisher Comments Stories from the main works of classical rabbinic literature, which were produced by Jewish sages in either Hebrew or Aramaic, between 200 and 600 CE.... (read more) List Price $31.96 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Analytical Templates of the Ye by Jacob Neusner Synopsis In Analytical Templates of the Yerushalmi, Jacob Neusner systematically defines and classifies the four analytical initiatives of the Bavli in its encounter with the Mishnah. Neusner questions whether the Yerushalmi yields a comparable repertoire of... (read more) Your price: $83.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Talmud: Law, Theology, Narrative: A Sourcebook by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments The Talmud is important because it sets forth the law and theology of Judaism in its authoritative statement, continuing for centuries to attract commentators, and forming the curriculum for the culture of Judaism. In these pages, important and... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $48.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon, Volume II: The Two Talmuds by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments The author states in his preface: For a thousand years, from its earliest documents of the second century to the High Middle Ages, Rabbinic Judaism preferred to compose and collect anecdotes, not to construct of them sustained and connected biographies... (read more) Your price: $53.75 New - Trade Paper
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