The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

Martin S Jaffee editor Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Jun '07

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An international team of scholars help the reader confront the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus.This 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.

"The book is possibly the finest survey in English of Critical cultural issues for non-yeshiva beginning students of rabbinic literature." Aaron Howard, Jewish Herald-Voice

ISBN: 9780521843904

Dimensions: 235mm x 154mm x 30mm

Weight: 700g

438 pages