The Talmud: A Biography by Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott

The Talmud: A Biography

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish...
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Author: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
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Language: English
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The Talmud: A Biography by Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott

The Talmud: A Biography

¥12,447

The Talmud: A Biography

¥12,447
Author: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality

The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia.

Providing a concise biography of this quintessential work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the Talmud's prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity. He describes the book's origins and structure, its centrality to Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has come to be venerated--but also excoriated and maligned--in the centuries since it first appeared.

An incomparable introduction to a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics.

Author: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780691161846


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2018

About the Author
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer is associate professor of religious studies and law at Northwestern University and the author of Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories.

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