Talmud : The Steinsaltz Edition

Name: Talmud : The Steinsaltz Edition
Price: 26.06 USD
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ISBN: 9780375501821

ISBN-10: 0375501827

ISBN-13: 9780375501821

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adin Steinsaltz

List price: $65.00

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The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes Judaism's great compendium of tradition, law, and legend accessible in modern En-glish for the first time. Accepted as the authoritative basis for all subsequent codifications of Jewish law and practice, the multivolume Babylonian Talmud has been studied constantly by Jewish communities throughout the world since its completion in the sixth century. Yet, for most people, the complexity of the Talmud's Hebrew and Aramaic text is an impenetrable barrier to its riches. Furthermore, the Talmud's unique system of logic and argumentation often baffles even experienced readers. The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes it…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is the editor and translator of Random House's twenty-two-volume edition of the Talmud. He is also the author of many volumes on Jewish thought and practice and has been a resident scholar at both Yale University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1988 he was invited to open a Judaic studies center in Moscow, the first such institution in the former Soviet Union in sixty years. Rabbi Steinsaltz lives in Israel.