Customer Review: What is the Talmud? Who put it together, and why? If you are curious about those questions, this book is an excellent choice. Rubenstein takes a literary approach to a number of key stories in the Talmud and uses them to examine the Sages of the Babylonian Academies. The only quibble I have... more info
Customer Review: In Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, And Culture, Jeffrey Rubenstein (assistant professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University) draws attention to the literary aspects and cultural contexts of six Babylonian Talmud stories and provides a... more info
Customer Review: My interest focus was on Chapter 6 on correlations of the anan ha-kavod the cloud of glory and the sukkah, shelter, shade and G*d imagery, even so the entire piece came as a refreshing surprise. Rabbi Goldie Milgram, author of: Reclaiming Judaism as a Spiritual Practice: Holy Days and Shabbat
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