Description
| Product ID: | 9780691161846 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books |
| Title: | The Talmud |
| Subtitle: | A Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | History of religion, History of religion, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: sacred texts |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-17 |