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Protocols of Non-Documentary Writing in the Rabbinic Canon, Lanham, Maryland, 2002: University Press of America. Studies in Judaism series. Volume Three. Sifré to Deuteronomy and Mekhilta Attributed to R. Ishmael ; Texts without Boundaries. Protocols of Non-Documentary Writing in the Rabbinic Canon, Lanham, Maryland, 2002: University Press of ...
The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on thirty-seven masekhtot. The Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) has Gemara on thirty-nine masekhtot. [1] The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology. [2]
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire corpus of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. [1] The term typically refers to literature from the Talmudic era (70–640 CE), [ 2 ] as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writings .
Pages in category "Rabbinic literature" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1873–1942) was an American Judaica scholar and author who served on the faculty of Hebrew Union College and composed responsa for the Reform movement in America. He specialized in Midrashic and Talmudical literature, and is best known for his landmark critical edition and English translation of the Mekilta de-Rabbi ...
This article lists figures in Kabbalah according to historical chronology and schools of thought. In popular reference, Kabbalah has been used to refer to the whole history of Jewish mysticism, but more accurately, and as used in academic Jewish studies, Kabbalah refers to the doctrines, practices and esoteric exegetical method in Torah, that emerged in 12th-13th century Southern France and ...
These writings take several forms: Talmud – An authoritative commentary on the Mishnah. Mishnah – An analysis of the laws and meaning of the Bible, containing information from the oral law. Gemara – Rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah; Tosefta – A set of teachings that in many ways are similar to the Mishnah. It may be ...
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on February 27, 1903, in Pruzhany, Imperial Russia (later Poland, now Belarus).He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some 200 years: His paternal grandfather was Chaim Soloveitchik, and his great-grandfather and namesake was Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis HaLevi.