MISHNAH & GEMARA (TALMUD)
Religiohistorical rabbinic insights on Biblical life in 2nd Temple times, and beyond.
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The Mishnah: A New Translation,
by Jacob Neusner A scholarly English presentation, this edition provides a very orderly and readable format to aid in navigating the overwhelming material preserved concerning religious life in 2nd Temple Judaism. A very literal rendering, the translation gives trustworthy and accurate portrait of the nuances of the Mishnaic Hebrew text. Essential for any believer to better appreciate the contextual tones informing how the Bible was lived out among the very people to whom it was entrusted.
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Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages,
by Abraham Cohen A very user-friendly introduction to the content of the Talmud, with chapters presented topically while providing a great overview of relevant concepts. What can easily be an overwhelming and daunting experience, this book offers the interested reader a primer of sorts on the major topics recorded in the often labyrinthine landscape of the Talmud.
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The Essential Talmud,
by Adin Steinsaltz The Talmud is a work of particular Jewish perspective. One cannot open the text and expect orientation to the nature of its content. Jewish thought and approach to Biblical subject matters is peculiar to the nature of the Hebrew language and dependent upon a rich cultural history. This book gives the context necessary to construct a proper approach to the Talmudic text. A methodology for how the rabbis of antiquity thought and dealt with complexities and consequences of Biblical subjects is what this book provides.
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The Burnt Book,
by Marc-Alain Ouaknin The first half is a nominal history and reading guide of the Talmud, like the above resource. The second half transcends that topic, focusing on the concepts of revelation and interpretation of the Biblical text. The polysemous nature of Hebrew is emphasized with the view of the text as divinely inspired, to instill the centrality of a personal wrestling with the Biblical content that reinforces an individual’s faith as bearing upon the text in a meaningful way.
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