The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context.

Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a "master." This book examin...

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Main Author: Lightstone, Jack N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006
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