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Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus

12 reviews
Brad H. Young

Hendrickson Publishers, 2007

Finally, someone has come to shed light ...
We live in a time where it is okay to address certain issues about Cristianity and the Jewishness of Jesus. A couple of decades ago (the other day for that matter) It was not okay. The book that Dr. Young has written is outstanding, most all of the issues that he tackles can not be better said. I've known this for a long time and I know many people did too, but if you don't have the proper ...

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development

2 reviews

Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993

A Novel Parallel: Orthodox Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
The best description of this very organized, concisely thorough work is :"An ideal textbook...a remarkable achievement in its field." Expository Times A parallel history: This parallel history of Judaism and Christianity presents both independent and integral accounts of the first six centuries in the development of both branches of monotheistic Semitic religion (if we disagree with Jan ...

The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A contemplative, philosophical, and methodical cross-examination
The Cambridge Companion to The Talmud and Rabbinic Literature is a scholarly volume of essays by an assembly of learned authors assembled especially to introduce students to historical, cultural, hermeneutical issues relevant to the study and interpretation of rabbinic literature. Individual essays include "Rabbinic Authorship as a Collective Enterprise", "Jewish Visionary Tradition in Rabbinic ...

Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages

27 reviews
Abraham Cohen

Schocken, 1995

Everyman's Talmud for Everyman (or Woman)
As the subtitle of the book (Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages) suggests, Abraham Cohen sets out to introduce his readership to the worldview of classic rabbinic literature. The topics covered by the book are nearly as varied as the topics covered by the Talmud itself - covering everything from ruminations about God, including God's attributes and God's place in the universe. The bulk of ...

Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary, from The Rabbinic Period to Modern Times

3 reviews
Shai Cherry

Jewish Publication Society of America, 2007

One of my favorite Judaica/Biblical commentary books ever
I'm about halfway through the book and already it's one of my favorite Judaiaca and/or Bible commentary books ever (other favorites include Telushkin's Jewish Wisdom and others and Marc Brettler (who wrote the foreword)'s How to Read the Bible). The first chapter (after the introduction), called No Word Unturned, was actually so good I read it twice. It's very dense in the sense that a lot ...

Rabbinic Stories (Classics of Western Spirituality)

2 reviews
Shaye J. D. Cohen

Paulist Press, 2002

More than Stories
What is the Talmud? Who put it together, and why? If you are curious about those questions, this book is an excellent choice. Rubenstein takes a literary approach to a number of key stories in the Talmud and uses them to examine the Sages of the Babylonian Academies. The only quibble I have with this book is the title: "Rabbinic Stories." Perhaps the reason it was chosen had to do with ...

Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

3 reviews

Ktav Publishing House, 1997

The most comprehensive 2nd Temple Period anthology
I have been teaching Jewish Studies at the college and high school level for ten years, and this is the most helpful primary source anthology for the 2nd Temple Period. As a primary text anthology, there is little instruction as to what the texts mean, as that is intended to be covered in Schiffman's companion book. But as a teacher, there is no book I use more to prepare lessons, and this ...

Theology in Rabbinic Stories

3 reviews
Chaim Pearl

Hendrickson Publishers, 1997

A tremendous pleasure to learn with this book
There is a tremendous pleasure in learning with this book. Rabbi Pearl tells stories of the sages, and through them teaches principles of Jewish thought. This work is written so clearly and the stories are told with such great vividness that the ideas come with particular force and conviction. This was Rabbi Pearl's final work. And it represents truly his legacy, a legacy that included deep ...

Creativity and Tradition: Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought (Harvard Center ...
Israel Ta-Shma

Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2007

This volume brings together sixteen of Professor Israel M. Ta-Shma's outstanding studies that were originally written in English, four of which are being published here for the first time. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, these essays focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, ...

From Text to Tradition, a History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times: A History of Second Temple ...

4 reviews
Lawrence H. Schiffman

Ktav Pub Inc, 1991

Invaluable Study of the Development of Rabbinic Judiasm
For those who have wondered how the Jewish religion transformed the practice of animal sacrifice depicted in the Bible to the one we know today, this book is for you. Professor Schiffman writes a careful, thoughtful history of Jewish religious thought from the time of return from Babylon (about 560 B.C.E.) to the closing of the Talmud (about 200 C.E.). Focusing on the Greek and Roman periods, ...

The Literature of the Sages, Midrash, and Targum; Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism; Contracts, Inscriptions, ...

Fortress Press, 2007

This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages, First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned Compendia series, published cooperatively with Van Gorcum of Amsterdam. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a careful ...

The Stranger within Your Gates: Converts and Conversion in Rabbinic Literature (Chicago Studies in the ...
Gary G. Porton

University Of Chicago Press, 1994

If the People of Israel understood themselves to share a common ancestry as well as a common religion, how could a convert to their faith who did not share their ethnicity fit into the ancient Israelite community? While it is comparatively simple to declare religious beliefs, it is much more difficult to enter a group whose membership is defined in ethnic terms. In showing how the rabbis struggled continually with the dual nature of the ...

Rabbinic Authority : The Authority of the Talmudic Sages

2 reviews
Michael S. Berger

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

institional and textual authority of the rabbis
A fascinating discussion of rabbinic authority in a text-based tradition. In my opinion it built to a great extent on ideas already presented in studies of chatimah literature in halakha by Shelomo Havlin and on the books of Weiss-Halivni. Recommended very highly. See also Maimonides on 'yeridat ha'dorot' by Menachem Kellner who uses the dissertation that was the basis for this book.

Seder Olam: The Rabbinic View of Biblical Chronology
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Jason Aronson, 1998

Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism (Studies in Judaism)
Rivka Ulmer

University Press of America, 2007

Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era.

The Stone Edition of the Chumash: The Torah, Haftaros, and Five Megillos With a Commentary Anthologized from ...

5 reviews
Nosson Scherman

Mesorah Pubns Ltd, 1994

Best Hebrew-English chumash available!
Handsome edition, with lucid contemporary translation. This is fast becoming the most popular English-language Chumash for synagogue and home use, and it's easy to see why. With illustrations, cross-references, and haftorahs included in this nicely-bound single volume, it's a thrill to see a work of this quality available from Amazon.com. This makes a fine bar/bat mitzvah gift, as it's an ...

Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)

2 reviews
Lawrence A. Hoffman

University Of Chicago Press, 1996

Excellent Scholarship, Very Readable
Hoffman begins his analysis of the meaning of male circumcision in Rabbinic Judaism by recounting the attempts in the nineteenth century by the movement in Germany to eliminate circumcision a requirement in Judaism. The effort was largely unsuccessful. This prompts him to study the ritual's public meaning through the history of Judaism. Hoffman admits that his the results of his ...

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