The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521843904)

This volume 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 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.

Author: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
ISBN-10: 0521843901
ISBN-13: 9780521843904
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2007
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.06w x 1.17d