Reading the rabbis : the Talmud as literature /
Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final decisions. Methods of reading have shi...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996
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