Reading the rabbis
Subtitle: the Talmud as literature
By: David Kraemer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Talmud as Religious Literature; title: Torah, Written and Oral; title: The Rabbis and Scripture; title: Rhetorics of Tradition and Innovation; title: On Truth, Human and Divine; title: Pluralism and Pragmatism; title: Women Categorized; title: The Problem with Foreskin: Circumcision, Gender, Impurity, and Death; title: On Human Suffering; title: The Difference a Lens Makes