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Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how
teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a
series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms
that range from seminaries to secular universities and with
students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad
range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and
tools for how to achieve that goal. Bridging the study of Talmud
and the study of pedagogy, this book is an essential resource for
scholars, curriculum writers, and classroom teachers of Talmud.
Learning to Read Talmud is the first book-length study of how
teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a
series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms
that range from seminaries to secular universities and with
students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad
range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and
tools for how to achieve that goal. Bridging the study of Talmud
and the study of pedagogy, this book is an essential resource for
scholars, curriculum writers, and classroom teachers of Talmud.
In an effort to disentangle motherhood from idealized notions of
the Jewish family, Motherhood in the Jewish Cultural Imagination
presents new perspectives on Jewish mothers by examining them in an
array of time periods and social, religious, literary and
historical contexts. This collection of articles also grants
mothers a more prominent analytical place in the narration of
Jewishness by exploring the ways that Jews have used motherhood to
construct and sustain Jewish culture. Each contribution exposes the
complexities of the place that mothers occupy in our understanding
of Jewish culture and identity. Utilizing methodologies from
literature, folklore, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and
religion, the essays in this volume locate mothers, motherhood, and
mothering in a societal context organized by gender and show how
these images interact with, support, and contest prevailing gender
belief systems. The book include examinations of childless women
warriors of the Bible; childrearing and custodial care in ancient
Israel; analyses of the power of God in relationship to the power
of mothers in rabbinic literature; depictions of pregnant mothers;
descriptions of rabbinic mothers in mourning; images of motherhood
in the Zohar; constructions of mothers in medieval piyut; analyses
of medieval stories about mothers; perspectives on biblical mothers
in modern Jewish literature; mothers in the Hebrew revival
movement; mothers in Jewish women's prayer books; mothers in Jewish
children's literature; Ottoman Jewish mothers; Afghani Jewish
mothers; mothers in Israeli film; and the impact of mothering on
American Jewish women activists.
This book presents a new framework for understanding the
relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law. Drawing
on legal theory and models of rabbinic exegesis, Jane L. Kanarek
argues for the centrality of biblical narrative in the formation of
rabbinic law. Through close readings of selected Talmudic and
midrashic texts, Kanarek demonstrates that rabbinic legal readings
of narrative scripture are best understood through the framework of
a referential exegetical web. She shows that law should be viewed
as both prescriptive of normative behavior and as a meaning-making
enterprise. By explicating the hermeneutical processes through
which biblical narratives become resources for legal norms, this
book transforms our understanding of the relationship of law and
narrative as well as the ways in which scripture becomes a rabbinic
document that conveys legal authority and meaning.
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