The Talmud : a biography : banned, censored and burned : the book they couldn't suppress / Harry Freedman.
Discusses the history of the Talmud, tracing its path from a record of discussions among scholars in towns and villages close to modern-day Baghdad, its role during the Enlightenment, and its influence over traditional Judaism.
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The Talmud in its world. In the beginning ; The origins of the Talmud ; Returning to Babylon ; The compilation of the Talmud ; The flowering of Babylon ; From your father's house ; Coming of age ; The age of the giants
- The Talmud in the world. Banned, censored and burned : the thirteenth century ; Printers and polemics ; A royal Talmud, a Protestant rabbi ; The wisdom of the Greeks ; The challenge of the Enlightenment ; The problem with emancipation ; A new world in the making.