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{en} Understanding the Talmud (1955) is a book by Ernest R. Trattner.

Abstract

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Published in New York, NY: T. Nelson, 1955.

Contents

Part One -- I. Introduction: the beginnings of the Talmud -- Oral law vs. written law -- Men of the great assembly -- Sanhedrin -- Destruction of the Jewish national state -- II. The Talmud: the story of the Mishnah -- The six orders of the Mishnah -- Tractates of each order -- III. Gemara: origin and growth -- Comparisons of Mishnah text and Gemara commentary -- The Halakah -- Academies of Jewish learning -- Babylonian and Palestinian Jewry -- Leaders of Babylonian Jewry -- IV. The Haggadah -- Legal and ethical interpretation of Scriptures -- Examples of the Haggadic treatment -- V. Founders of the Talmud -- Important sages of the Mishnah -- Parables -- Rabbi Akiba -- Rabbi Meir -- Rabbi Judah the prince -- The Patriarchs -- Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish -- Johanan -- Abba Areka -- Mar Samuel -- VI. What the Talmud means today -- The Sobaraim -- Chain of tradition -- Decline of Babylonian Jewry -- Talmudic Judaism -- Legal system of the Talmud -- State -- Attitude towards miracles -- Codes -- Concept of Revelation -- The meaning of authority -- Part Two -- Sayings of the fathers -- Apocrypha to the Talmud -- Additions to the Talmud -- Commentaries on the Talmud: contributors -- The house of Hillel: Patriarchs of Palestinian Jewry -- Founders of the Mishnah -- Makers of the Gemara -- Heads of academies: Sura and Pumbeditha -- Rules of interpretation -- Note on Midrash literature -- Note on Baraitha -- Note on the Tosefta -- Attacks upon the Talmud -- Burnings of the Talmud.

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