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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.
A feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate
as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a
methodological lens is not new to the study of Talmudic literature
or to the study of individual tractates, this book demonstrates
that such an intervention with the Babylonian Talmud reveals new
perspectives on the rabbis' relationship with the temple and its
priesthood. More specifically, through the relationships most
commonly associated with home, such as those of husband-wife,
father-son, mother-son, and brother-brother, the rabbis destabilize
the temple bayit (or temple house). Moving beyond the view that the
temple was replaced by the rabbinic home, and that rabbinic rites
reappropriate temple practices, a feminist approach highlights the
inextricable link between kinship, gender, and the body, calling
attention to the ways the rabbis deconstruct the priesthood so as
to reconstruct themselves.
After his expulsion from Spain in 1492, Jacob ibn Habib created the
En Yaaqov, a collection of Talmudic aggadah (non-legal material),
by removing the majority of the Talmud's legal portions but
preserving the chapter order of the remaining material and adding
his own introduction and running commentary. In The En Yaaqov:
Jacob ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus author
Marjorie Lehman argues that the En Yaaqov's anthologizer, Jacob ibn
Habib, purposely sought to create a Talmud "look-alike" in order to
prove that Judaism's foundational legal tract could also be seen as
a theological document. By considering the factors that influenced
ibn Habib, Lehman argues that his En Yaaqov was a reaction to the
way that the Talmud was perceived and studied during the late
medieval period among Spanish Jewry.
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