The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 9: Hallah (Volume 9) (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism - The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation)

ISBN: 0226576663

Author: Neusner, Jacob

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Product Description Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism." From the Back Cover The purpose of this preliminary translation is to make possible a set of historical and religious-historical studies on the formation of Judaism in the land of Israel from the closure of the Mishnah to the completion of the Talmud of the land of Israel and the time of the composition of the first midrashic compilations. About the Author Jacob Neusner, 1932-2016, was one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of South Florida, and Bard College. He was author or editor of more than 900 books for students, scholars, and general readers in Judaism, comparative religion, and the history and analysis of rabbinic texts. He was general editor of The Talmud of the Land of Israel, published in thirty-five volumes by the University of Chicago Press.