Talmud in Antiquity and in the 21st c.
Here are two new books on Talmud that have recently been published.
The first one is Marc Hirschman’s The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E.: Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context
. For those who aren’t familiar with Hirshman’s work, you can find a talk of his, “Jewish and Christian Battles Over the Bible,” here.
The second one, not yet released, has a title which sounded a bit kitchy-Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?: The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
, but the list of contributors was impressive. Among those who contributed essays are Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Yaakov Elman, Richard Kalmin, Jane Kanarek, Ephraim Kanarfogel, and Jeffrey Rubenstein and more.
Posted on November 5th, 2009 under Ancient Judaism, Jewish History, New Books, Talmud, Talmud Study • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed
