Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Authoritative and comprehensive. Professor Urbach's The Sages is an indispensable book for all those who are curious to know how the rabbis of the Talmud handled philosophical and theological issues. It has few peers."
--David Weiss Halivni"In this big book, Ephraim Urbach, Professor of Talmud, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University and President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, marshals his extraordinary erudition and insight to present a remarkable survey of classical rabbinic views on God, man, and the people of Israel--and a host of related topics."
--Isadore Twersky"When Professor Urbach wrote his monumental work Chazalnineteen years ago, it was greeted with universal acclaim...This new paperback edition will go even further to extend its readership and is sure to bring satisfaction to all who encounter it...This is a magnum opus by any standards...It is without equal in the English speaking world as a book to provide so complete and clear an insight into the talmudic mind which cannot but deepen one's respect for and commitment to the values for which they stood."
--Ian S. Goodhardt, L'Eylah, A Journal of Judaism Today"[This book] remains a unique thematic survey of Rabbinic theology, cosmology, ethics, eschatology, theodicy, and philosophies of law and history...The thematic continuities which the Talmud, Midrash, and other great texts of the Rabbinic tradition embody but refuse to explicate for us are and have always been the real nerve of rabbinic dialogue. And these are what the vast and clearheaded erudition of Urbach makes accessible."
--L. E. Goodman, Philosophy East and WestReview
When Professor Urbach wrote his monumental work Chazal nineteen years ago, it was greeted with universal acclaim...This new paperback edition will go even further to extend its readership and is sure to bring satisfaction to all who encounter it...This is a magnum opus by any standards...It is without equal in the English speaking world as a book to provide so complete and clear an insight into the talmudic mind which cannot but deepen one's respect for and commitment to the values for which they stood. Ian S. Goodhardt
Review
Authoritative and comprehensive. Professor Urbach's The Sages is an indispensable book for all those who are curious to know how the rabbis of the Talmud handled philosophical and theological issues. It has few peers. L. E. Goodman - Philosophy East and West
Review
In this big book, Ephraim Urbach, Professor of Talmud, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University and President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, marshals his extraordinary erudition and insight to present a remarkable survey of classical rabbinic views on God, man, and the people of Israel--and a host of related topics. David Weiss Halivni
Review
[This book] remains a unique thematic survey of Rabbinic theology, cosmology, ethics, eschatology, theodicy, and philosophies of law and history...The thematic continuities which the Talmud, Midrash, and other great texts of the Rabbinic tradition embody but refuse to explicate for us are and have always been the real nerve of rabbinic dialogue. And these are what the vast and clearheaded erudition of Urbach makes accessible. L'Eylah, A Journal of Judaism Today