The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

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Summary

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.

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The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

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
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000) which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of that year, and was a finalist (one of three) for the National Jewish Book Award. Martin S. Jaffee is the author of Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE-400 CE (2001), Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Milennium, 2nd edition (2006), and several volumes of rabbinic translation and commentary. He is currently co-editor of the AJS Review.
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ISBN 13 9780521605083
ISBN 10 0521605083
Title The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
Author Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Series Cambridge Companions To Religion
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2007-06-01
Number of pages 438
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