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Essay How to Find an Expert Sorceress, According to the Talmud This week, Maggie Anton — the author of the Rashi’s Daughters series and, most recently, Rav Hisda’s Daugther: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery—blogs for The… Maggie Anton November 19, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Trial of the Talmud Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff, Robert Chazan) presents primary texts (offered together in… Naomi Firestone-Teeter January 9, 2013
Nonfiction The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation Yitzhak Y. Melamed (eds.), Abraham Socher (eds.), Paul Reitter (trans.)
Nonfiction The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus Marjorie Lehman
Nonfiction The Talmud’s Theological Language Game: A Philosophical Discourse Analysis Eugene B. Borowitz
Nonfiction The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to the Values of the Talmud Dov Peretz Elkins
Essay Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex Jake Marmer is the author of Jazz Talmud. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.About a decade ago I read a Billy… Jake Marmer January 3, 2012
Nonfiction Talmud Study in Yeshiva High Schools Aharon Lichtenstein & Yehuda Brandes; Jeffrey Saks ed.
Nonfiction Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures Talya Fishman