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The Talmud - Softcover

Emanuel Deutsch

 
9780461873610: The Talmud

Synopsis

The Talmud by Emanuel Deutsch. This work provides a wide-ranging, objective overview of The Talmud, explaining what it is, why it has mattered across cultures, and how it developed as Judaism's central corpus of law, lore, and learning. Deutsch traces its origins to the Babylonian exile and outlines the two main components—the Mishnah (the written text) and the Gemara (the commentary)—together forming The Talmud’s dual structure of Halachah (legal rulings) and Hagadah (narrative and ethical lore). He surveys the historical transmission through the Scribes and the Sanhedrin, the evolution from the Oral Law to the Mishnah, and the later Gemara produced in Palestine and Babylonia. The six sections of the Mishnah (Seeds, Feasts, Women, Damages, Sacred Things, Purifications) are described, along with linguistic blends of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. The essay also reflects on the Haggadah’s role, its cultural reach, and The Talmud’s status as a living, cosmopolitan text that influenced later scholarship and thought.

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