The Essential Talmud: An Introduction - Couverture rigide

Steinsaltz, Adin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1592642985 ISBN 13 : 9781592642984

Editeur : Toby Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud. A book of profound scholarship and concise pedagogy, The Essential Talmud succinctly describes the Talmuds history, structure, and methodology. It summarizes the Talmuds main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical sacred text as a human expression of divine law.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the leading scholars and rabbis of this century. His education includes a degree in mathematics from Hebrew University, in addition to his rabbinic studies. Rabbi Steinsaltz founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications; under its aegis, he has published fifty-eight books on the Talmud, Jewish mysticism, religious thought, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy. His biography of the famed Rabbi Menachem Schneerson will be published in 2007. These books have been translated into Russian, English, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, and Dutch. He lives in Jerusalem.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Toby Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592642985
• ISBN 13: 9781592642984
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 327
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• Personne responsable: non disponible