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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
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Jeffrey L. Rubenstein offers a translation from the Hebrew of The
Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni.
Halivni's work is widely regarded as the most comprehensive
scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing
of the Babylonian Talmud. Halivni presents the summation of a
lifetime of scholarship and the conclusions of his multivolume
Talmudic commentary, Sources and Traditions (Meqorot umesorot).
Arguing against the traditional view that the Talmud was composed
c. 450 CE by the last of the named sages in the Talmud, the
Amoraim, Halivni proposes that its formation took place over a much
longer period of time, not reaching its final form until about 750
CE. The Talmud consists of many literary strata or layers, with
later layers constantly commenting upon and reinterpreting earlier
layers. The later layers differ qualitatively from the earlier
layers, and were composed by anonymous sages whom Halivni calls
Stammaim. These sages were the true author-editors of the Talmud,
who reconstructed the reasons underpinning earlier rulings, created
the dialectical argumentation characteristic of the Talmud, and
formulated the literary units that make up the Talmudic text.
Halivni also discusses the history and development of rabbinic
tradition from the Mishnah through the post-Talmud legal codes, the
types of dialectical analysis found in the different rabbinic
works, and the roles of reciters, transmitters, compilers, and
editors in the composition of the Talmud. This volume contains an
introduction and annotations by Jeffrey Rubenstein.
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