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The essential Talmud : [with a new preface by the author and two new chapters] / Adin Steinsaltz ; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai.

Title
The essential Talmud : [with a new preface by the author and two new chapters] / Adin Steinsaltz ; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai.
Author
Steinsaltz, Adin
Publication
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Galai, Chaya
Description
viii, 327 p.; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Talmud la-kol. English
Alternative Title
Talmud la-kol.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Introductions
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface to the essential Talmud -- 1. What is the Talmud? -- 2. Life in the Talmudic period -- 3. The oral law -- the first generations -- 4. The oral law -- the era of the Zugot (pairs) -- 5. The Tannaim -- 6. The compilation of the Mishnah -- 7. The Amoraim in Babylonia -- 8. The Amoraim in Palestine -- 9. The redaction of the Babylonian Talmud -- 10. Talmudic exegesis -- 11. The printing of the Talmud -- 12. The persecution and banning of the Talmud -- 13. The structure of the Talmud -- 14. The layout of a Talmud page -- 15. The subject matter of the Talmud -- 16. Prayers and benedictions -- 17. The Sabbath -- 18. The festivals -- 19. Marriage and divorce -- 20. The status of women -- 21. Civil law -- 22. Criminal law -- 23. Sacrifices -- 24. Dietary laws -- 25. Ritual purity and impurity -- 26. Ethics and Halakhah -- 27. Derekh Eretz (deportment) -- 28. The world of mysticism -- 29. Midrash (Halakhic exegesis) -- 30. The Talmudic way of thinking -- 31. Strange and bizarre problems -- 32. Methods of study -- 33. The Talmud and the Halakhah -- 34. Aggadah in the Talmud -- 35. What is a scholar? -- 36. The Talmud's importance for the people -- 37. The Talmud has never been completed -- App. Orders and tractates of the Mishnah and Talmud.
ISBN
  • 0465082734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780465082735 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • ^^2006022718
  • 9780465082735
OCLC
  • 70292099
  • SCSB-11300449
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library