Title:
The Talmud : a biography : banned, censored and burned : the book they couldn't suppress / Harry Freedman.
Author:
Freedman, H. (Harry), author.
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Call Number:
BM501 .F744 2014
Abstract:
Discusses the history of the Talmud, tracing its path from a record of discussions among scholars in towns and villages close to modern-day Baghdad, its role during the Enlightenment, and its influence over traditional Judaism.
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ISBN:
9781472905949
Physical Description:
x, 243 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A Continuum book"--Title page verso.
Contents:
The Talmud in its world. In the beginning ; The origins of the Talmud ; Returning to Babylon ; The compilation of the Talmud ; The flowering of Babylon ; From your father's house ; Coming of age ; The age of the giants -- The Talmud in the world. Banned, censored and burned : the thirteenth century ; Printers and polemics ; A royal Talmud, a Protestant rabbi ; The wisdom of the Greeks ; The challenge of the Enlightenment ; The problem with emancipation ; A new world in the making.
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