Exploring Judaism
by Kraemer, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-05-03
Publisher(s): University of South Florida
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Table of Contents
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| The Question of Method | |
| On the Reliability of Attributions in the Babylonian Talmud | p. 3 |
| Rabbinic Sources for Historical Study | p. 21 |
| Studies in the History of Judaism | |
| Images of Childhood and Adolescence in Talmudic Literature | p. 35 |
| Child and Family Life in Judaism | p. 51 |
| On the Relationship of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah | p. 63 |
| Local Conditions for a Developing Rabbinic Tradition | p. 83 |
| Scriptural Interpretation in the Mishnah | p. 95 |
| The Formation of Rabbinic Canon: Authority and Boundaries | p. 103 |
| Judaic Doctrines of Evil and Suffering | p. 125 |
| Prozbul and Rabbinic Power | p. 137 |
| Literary Studies | |
| The Beginnings of the Preservation of Argumentation in Amoraic Babylonia | p. 149 |
| Scripture Commentary in the Babylonian Talmud: Primary or Secondary Phenomenon? | p. 161 |
| Rhetoric of Failed Refutation in the Bavli | p. 177 |
| New Meaning in Ancient Talmudic Texts: A Time Poem | p. 193 |
| Composition and Meaning in the Bavli | p. 207 |
| Applied Scholarship | |
| Introduction | p. 231 |
| A Developmental Perspective on the Laws of Niddah | p. 233 |
| The Scientific Study of Talmud | p. 245 |
| Critical Readings and Religious Insight: New Readings in the Bavli | p. 257 |
| Jewish Ethics and Abortion | p. 267 |
| Dramatizing the Torah | p. 277 |
| When God is "Wrong" | p. 283 |
| Disputes that Unite | p. 289 |
| The Spirit of the Rabbinic Sabbath | p. 295 |
| Jewish Death Practices: A Commentary on the Relationship of Humans and the Natural World | p. 305 |
| Bibliography | p. 317 |
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