Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud

Shulamit Valler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2011
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-936235-36-0 (ISBN)

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Both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud depict a wide range of sorrowful situations tied to every level of society and to the complexities of human behaviour and the human condition. This explores more than 50 stories from both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmuds, focusing on these issues.

"The Babylonian Talmud" and the "Jerusalem Talmud" show a myriad of sorrowful situations in various levels and circumstances and a variety of human behavior in these situations. The causes and expressions of sorrow amongst the Sages are different from its parallels amongst common people or women. The descriptions of sorrow vary between the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud. "Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud" discusses more than 50 stories from both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud focusing on those issues.

Shulamit Valler (Ph.D. Jewish Theological Seminary) is a professor of Talmud and Chair of the Jewish History department at the University of Haifa. Her numerous publications include Women and Womanhood in the Babylonian Talmud (1999) and Massekhet Sukkah–a Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud (2009).

Reihe/Serie	Judaism and Jewish Life
Übersetzer	Sharon Blass
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-936235-36-6 / 1936235366
ISBN-13	978-1-936235-36-0 / 9781936235360
Zustand	Neuware