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Understanding the Talmud
- Title
- Understanding the Talmud / by Ernest R. Trattner.
- Author
- Trattner, Ernest R. (Ernest Robert), 1898-1963.
- Publication
- New York : T. Nelson, ©1955.
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Details
- Description
- 211 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Introductions.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205).
- Contents
- Part One -- I. Introduction: the beginnings of the Talmud -- Oral law vs. written law -- Men of the great assembly -- Sanhedrin -- Destruction of the Jewish national state -- II. The Talmud: the story of the Mishnah -- The six orders of the Mishnah -- Tractates of each order -- III. Gemara: origin and growth -- Comparisons of Mishnah text and Gemara commentary -- The Halakah -- Academies of Jewish learning -- Babylonian and Palestinian Jewry -- Leaders of Babylonian Jewry -- IV. The Haggadah -- Legal and ethical interpretation of Scriptures -- Examples of the Haggadic treatment -- V. Founders of the Talmud -- Important sages of the Mishnah -- Parables -- Rabbi Akiba -- Rabbi Meir -- Rabbi Judah the prince -- The Patriarchs -- Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish -- Johanan -- Abba Areka -- Mar Samuel -- VI. What the Talmud means today -- The Sobaraim -- Chain of tradition -- Decline of Babylonian Jewry -- Talmudic Judaism -- Legal system of the Talmud -- State -- Attitude towards miracles -- Codes -- Concept of Revelation -- The meaning of authority -- Part Two -- Sayings of the fathers -- Apocrypha to the Talmud -- Additions to the Talmud -- Commentaries on the Talmud: contributors -- The house of Hillel: Patriarchs of Palestinian Jewry -- Founders of the Mishnah -- Makers of the Gemara -- Heads of academies: Sura and Pumbeditha -- Rules of interpretation -- Note on Midrash literature -- Note on Baraitha -- Note on the Tosefta -- Attacks upon the Talmud -- Burnings of the Talmud.
- ISBN
- 0313202532
- 9780313202537
- LCCN
- 55010608
- OCLC
- ocm00328145
- 328145
- SCSB-228724
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library