The Sages: The World and Wisdom of the Rabbi's of the Talmud
When Professor Urbach wrote his monumental workChazalnineteen years ago, it was greeted with universal acclaim...This new paperback edition will go even further to extend its readership and is sure to bring satisfaction to all who encounter it...This is amagnum opusby any standards...It is without equal in the English speaking world as a book to provide so complete and clear an insight into the talmudic mind which cannot but deepen one's respect for and commitment to the values for which they stood. (Ian S. GoodhardtL'Eylah, A Journal of Judaism Today)[This book] remains a unique thematic survey of Rabbinic theology, cosmology, ethics, eschatology, theodicy, and philosophies of law and history...The thematic continuities which the Talmud, Midrash, and other great texts of the Rabbinic tradition embody but refuse to explicate for us are and have always been the real nerve of rabbinic dialogue. And these are what the vast and clearheaded erudition of Urbach makes accessible. (L. E. GoodmanPhilosophy East and West)