From the Bible to the Talmud

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This course introduces the major texts and ideas of rabbinic Judaism as found in the Talmud, on the background of earlier biblical and Second Temple literature, beginning with major genres of biblical texts, followed by the 'intertestamental period.' In the second half of the course we then turn to readings from the Mishnah and the Talmud to become familiar with rabbinic texts and rabbinic thought.