The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First edition. xxi, 412 pages: map; 23 cm. Fine (unread) with small crease to outer front wrapper upper corner and persojnal bookplate to front free endpaper. Very tight and clean. . Paperback. ISBN: 9780521605083

This companion guides beginning students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critical issues that contemporary scholars use when studying the rabbinic texts of late antiquityContents: Rabbinic authorship as a collective enterprise / Martin S. Jaffee. The orality of rabbinic writing / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander. Social and institutional settings of rabbinic literature / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. The political geography of rabbinic texts / Seth Schwartz. Rabbinic midrash and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation / Steven D. Fraade. The Judaean legal tradition and the halakhah of the Mishnah / Shaye J.D. Cohen. Roman law and rabbinic legal composition / Catherine Hezser. Middle Persian culture and Babylonian sages: accommodation and resistance in the shaping of rabbinic legal tradition / Yaakov Elman. Jewish visionary tradition in rabbinic literature / Michael D. Swartz. An almost invisible presence: multilingual puns in rabbinic literature / Galit Hasan-Rokem. The "other" in rabbinic literature / Christine Hayes. Regulating the human body: rabbinic legal discourse and the making of Jewish gender / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert. Rabbinic historiography and representations of the past / Isaiah Gafni. Rabbinical ethical formation and the formation of rabbinic ethical compilations / Jonathan Wyn Schofer. Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia / Daniel Boyarin.