01697nam a2200229 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001500064040000800079050002300087100004400110245006500154260007100219300002400290440002900314505097200343650002801315650001201343650003301355700004201388700003701430AUA.120190224145439.0190224b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a1590458834 cJTL aBM503.5b.S77 1931 a Strack, Hermann Leberecht, d1848-1922 aIntroduction to the Talmud and Midrash /hHermann L. Strack. aIllinois, U.S.A : bJewish Publication Society of America,cc1931. a364 pages :c21 cm. aAtheneum paperbacks, T10 a PART I : Introduction to the Talmud. Definition of terms -- A sketch of the history of the Talmud -- The division of the Mishna (the Talmuds, the Tosephta) and the arrangement of its parts -- Contents of the sixty-three Tractates of the Mishna according to the Order of Moses Maimonides -- The Palestinian Talmud -- The Babylonian Talmud -- The extra-canonical Tractates -- The Tosephta -- History of the Talmud text -- A characterization of the Talmud -- Hermeneutics of the Talmud and the Midrashim -- Textual specimens in translation -- The more important teachers -- Literature -- -- PART II : Introduction to the Midrashim. Introductory remarks -- The Tannaitic Midrashim Mekiltha, Siphra, Siphre -- The homiletic Midrashim -- The oldest expositional Midrashim -- Midrashim of the five Megilloth -- Other expositional Midrashim -- Other Haggadic works -- Collective works and commentaries which go by the name of Midrash -- Midrash collections and translations. aTalmudvIntroductions.  aTalmud. aTalmud BavlixIntroductions. aStemberger, Günter, d1940-eAuthor a Bockmuehl, Markus N. A.eAuthor