Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash / by Günter Stemberger ; translated and edited by Markus Bockmuehl.

Author

Stemberger, Günter, 1940-

Publication

Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bockmuehl, Markus N. A.
• Strack, Hermann Leberecht, 1848-1922.

Description

xii, 433 p.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch. English

Alternative Title

Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch.

Subject

• Talmud > Introductions
• Midrash > Introductions
• Midrash > History and criticism
• Rabbinical literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Translation of: Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch.
• Previous ed. co-authored by Hermann Leberecht Strack in 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-372) and indexes

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

General introduction. The historical framework ; The rabbinic school system ; Rabbinical hermeneutics ; Oral and written tradition ; Handling rabbinic texts : the problem of method ; The rabbis ; The languages of rabbinic literature -- Talmudic literature. The Mishnah ; The Tosefta ; The Palestinian Talmud ; The Babylonian Talmud ; The extracanonical tractates -- Midrashim. The Halakhic Midrashim ; The oldest exegetical Midrashim ; Homiletical Midrashim ; Midrashim on the five Megillot ; Other exegetical Midrashim ; Other Haggadic works ; Compilations; commentaries known as 'Midrash.'

ISBN

0567295095

OCLC

• 34558803
• SCSB-12448020

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library