{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-the-talmud-and-rabbinic-literature-paperback-9780521605083","title":"The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (Paperback) 9780521605083","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn international team of scholars help the reader confront the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Edited by), Martin S. Jaffee (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521605083, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 May 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e438 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is possibly the finest survey in English of Critical cultural issues for non-yeshiva beginning students of rabbinic literature.\"  \u003cbr\u003eAaron Howard, Jewish Herald-Voice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise Martin S. Jaffee\u003cbr\u003e 2. The orality of Rabbinic writing Elizabeth Shanks Alexander\u003cbr\u003e 3. Social and institutional settings of Rabbinic literature Jeffrey L. Rubenstein\u003cbr\u003e 4. The political geography of Rabbinic texts Seth Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 5. Rabbinic Midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation Steven D. Fraade\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Judaean legal tradition and the Halakhah of the Mishnah Shaye J. D. Cohen\u003cbr\u003e 7. Roman law and Rabbinic legal composition Catherine Hezser\u003cbr\u003e 8. Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages: accommodation and resistance in the shaping of Rabbinic legal tradition Yaakov Elman\u003cbr\u003e 9. Jewish visionary tradition in Rabbinic literature Michael D. Swartz\u003cbr\u003e 10. The almost invisible presence of the other: multi-lingual puns in Rabbinic literature Galit Hasan-Rokem\u003cbr\u003e Park III: 11. The 'other' in Rabbinic literature Christine Hayes\u003cbr\u003e 12. Regulating the human body: Rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert\u003cbr\u003e 13. Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past Isaiah Gafni\u003cbr\u003e 14. Rabbinic ethical formational and the formation of Rabbinic ethical compilations Jonathan Wyn Schofer\u003cbr\u003e 15. Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia Daniel Boyarin.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Judaism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Judaism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Judaism%20%5BHRJ%5D%22\"\u003eHRJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion:%20general%20%5BHRA%5D%22\"\u003eHRA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003263111448,"sku":"9780521605083","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521605083i_dcc1bff1-5e17-4033-a7ee-a83c1443bdd0.jpg?v=1691370422","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-the-talmud-and-rabbinic-literature-paperback-9780521605083","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}