Talmud Yerushalmi and Bavli - Development and Methodology

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The goal of this course is to introduce students to the methodology and important works of the modern academic study of Amoraic Literature, including the Talmud Yerushalmi and Talmud Bavli. By the end of the course, students should be able to find and analyze manuscript variants of the Talmud, find and compare parallel sugyot, appreciate a sugya's structure, and uncover its layers of development and editing.