This course aims to introduce participants to the style, structure and content of the Babylonian Talmud - a body of literature that Jews have been studying (and defending) for over a thousand years. By looking at a series of passages of increasing complexity, we will...
This course aims to introduce participants to the style, structure and content of the Babylonian Talmud - a body of literature that Jews have been studying (and defending) for over a thousand years. By looking at a series of passages of increasing complexity, we will...
This course aims to introduce participants to the style, structure and content of the Babylonian Talmud - a body of literature that Jews have been studying (and defending) for over a thousand years. By looking at a series of passages of increasing complexity, we will...
In Part 1, we introduced the Shapira manuscripts: leather fragments brought to London in 1883 that seemed to preserve an ancient and dramatically different form of Deuteronomy, were dismissed as forgeries, and then disappeared. We also began studying the text preserved in them. In Part...
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
The Mishnah is the foundation upon which the entire edifice of rabbinic Jewish thought and literature is built. Beginning with a general introduction, we will read a selection of often-neglected chapters that illuminate some of the stranger aspects of the world of the ancient rabbis....
