Essential Talmud
The essential Talmud
Adin Steinsaltz ; translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai
- 30th anniversary ed.
- New York Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2006.
- viii, 327 p. 21 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Preface to The essential Talmud 1. What is the Talmud? 2. Life in the Talmudic period 3. The oral law: the first generations 4. The oral law: the era of the Zugot (pairs) 5. The Tannaim 6. The compilation of the Mishnah 7. The Amoraim in Babylonia 8. The Amoraim in Palestine 9. The redaction of the Babylonian Talmud 10. Talmudic exegesis 11. The printing of the Talmud 12. The persecution and banning of the Talmud 13. The structure of the Talmud 14. The layout of a Talmud page 15. The subject matter of the Talmud 16. Prayers and benedictions 17. The Sabbath 18. The festivals 19. Marriage and divorce 20. The status of women 21. Civil law 22. Criminal law 23. Sacrifices 24. Dietary laws 25. Ritual purity and impurity 26. Ethics and Halakhah 27. Derekh Eretz (deportment) 28. The world of mysticism 29. Midrash (Halakhic exegesis) 30. The Talmudic way of thinking 31. Strange and bizarre problems 32. Methods of study 33. The Talmud and the Halakhah 34. Aggadah in the Talmud 35. What is a scholar? 36. The Talmud's importance for the people 37. The Talmud has never been completed Appendix: Orders and tractates of the Mishnah and Talmu
This expanded version of the classic text on Jewish theology--by the scholar Newsweek called "a genius of the highest order"--demonstrates the contemporary relevance of this proud legacy of the Jewish people