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In this engaging book of commentary on the Talmud, the author upends the long-held theory of the immutability of halakhah, Jewish law. In her detailed analysis of over 80 short …
This study shows how the section of the Passover Haggdah known as maggid ('recounting') achieved its comprehensive structure and contents in the geonic period between ca. 600 and …
The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud studies how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the scholastic centers of rabbinic Babylonia. Bickart …