Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep int
Yaakov Elman (Judaic studies, Yeshiva U.) has authored and edited many books and articles on rabbinic intellectual history and Jewish biblical exegesis. Secunda (interdisciplinary Jewish research, Heb
