Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature

by David Kraemer

Book Overview

Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shifted as more readers and students have turned to the Talmud for evidence of rabbinic history, religion, rhetoric, or anthropology; still, few have employed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195096231
• ISBN13: 9780195096231
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"