Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing
How should we understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud? Where do they come from? Why are they in the Talmud? How do they relate to Talmudic law? In Talmudic Stories, Jeffrey Rubenstein deepens
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of
"This is a mature work, in which the author invested much labor and thourht. The thoroughenss, methodical diversity, and Scholarly discretion can serve as a model of the demanding standards that are t
Rubenstein (Hebrew and Judaic studies, New York U.) investigates how to understand the stories of the Babylonian Talmud, where they come from, why they are in the Talmud, and how they relate to Talmud
David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examin
