The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli

by David Kraemer

Book Overview

This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is the most comprehensive of all documents produced by rabbinic Jews in late antiquity. It became the authoritative legal source for medieval Judaism, and for some its opinions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195062906
• ISBN13: 9780195062908
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"