Acknowledgments ix Prologue The Talmud-Essential, Enhanced, and Emblematic 1 1 Gestation and Birth (Essential Talmud Part One) 9 2 Anatomy (Essential Talmud Part Two) 41 3 Election How the Talmud's Discourse Developed (Enhanced Talmud) 100 4 Rivals, Naysayers, Imitators, and Critics (Emblematic Talmud) 161 5 Golden Old Age Talmud in Modernity-Three Stories 209 Notes 249 Index 287
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer is associate professor of religious studies and law at Northwestern University and the author of Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories.
"Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Education and
Jewish Identity, In Memory of Dorothy Kripke"
"First, Wimpfheimer traces the details of both discussions, but
especially the halachic discussion, in close and fine detail within
the talmudic text. His deconstruction of the halachic text in
particular is masterful."---David Reuben, Jewish Chronicle
"Wimpfheimer takes the reader by the hand and walks through the
many hair-splitting complexities of the Talmud, its evolution and
its impact."---Patrick T. Reardon, Chicago Tribune
"Excellent and highly recommended."---David Tesler, Association of
Jewish Libraries
"The question therefore becomes how exactly such literary and
historical analysis is arriving to the ‘essential’ Talmud rather
than to the new 'enhanced' understanding of it. The answer to this
question is in the author’s complex and carefully calibrated
framing of the book as 'biography.'"---Sergey Dolgopolski, Reading
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