Title: Learning to read Talmud : what it looks like and how it happens /
Authors: Kanarek, Jane L.,; Lehman, Marjorie Suzan,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Talmud Study and teaching.; Judaism Study and teaching; Jewish religious education
Abstract: "Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Stop making sense : using text study guides to help students learn to read Talmud / Beth A. Berkowitz -- Looking for problems : a pedagogic quest for difficulties / Ethan M. Tucker -- What others have to say : secondary readings in learning to read Talmud / Jane L. Kanarek -- And no one gave the torah to the priests : reading the Mishnah's references to the priests and the temple / Marjorie Lehman -- Talmud for non-rabbis : teaching graduate students in the academy / Gregg E. Gardner -- When cultural assumptions about texts and reading fail : teaching Talmud as liberal arts / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- Talmud in the mouth : oral recitation and repetition through the ages and in today's classroom / Jonathan S. Milgram -- Talmud that works your heart : new approaches to reading / Sarra Lev.