co-sponsored by the
Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
and the
Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Shaye J. D. Cohen
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy emeritus
Noah Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
Jay M. Harris
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies
David Stern
Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature
and Professor of Comparative Literature
Director, Center for Jewish Studies
Susan Kahn, Managing Editor
Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
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What is the Mishnah: The State of the Question?
Edited by Shaye J. D. Cohen
CONTENTS:
Part I. The Mishnah and Its Predecessors
1. Tzvi Novick: The Mishnah and the Bible
2. Jonathan S. Milgram: The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law
3. Vered Noam: The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Shamma Friedman: Mishnah and Tosefta
5. Yair Furstenberg: The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah
Part II. Roman Context and History
6. Martin Goodman: The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah
7. Catherine Hezser: The Mishnah and Roman Law
8. Hayim Lapin: Mishnah and History
Part III. Reading the Mishnah
9. Beth A. Berkowitz: The Rhetoric of the Mishnah
10. Naftali Cohn: Mishnah as Utopia
11. Moshe Halbertal: Mishnah and Halakhah
12. Moshe Simon-Shoshan: Nomos and Mishnah
13. Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Holiness in the Mishnah
14. Elitzur A. Bar-Asher: The Language of the Mishnah
Part IV. The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah
15. Jonathan Klawans: Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah
16. Gail Labovitz: Mishnah, Women, Gender
17. Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Goyim in the Mishnah
18. Adiel Schremer: Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah
Part V. Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah
19. Azzan Yadin-Israel: The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah
20. David Stern: The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah
21. Uziel Fuchs: The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print
22. Chanan Gafni: The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era
What is the Talmud: The State of the Question?
Edited by Christine Hayes and Jay M. Harris
Contents:
What Is The Talmud? Late Antique Perspectives
PART I. THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD AS A TEXT
- Alyssa Gray: Bavli as a Reflective Adaptation of Yerushalmi:
The Case of Tractate Temura - Jonathan Milgram: The Textual Formation and Redaction
of the Babylonian Talmud - Barak S. Cohen: The Legal Methodology of the Amoraim
- Yair Furstenberg: Consolidation and Disintegration of
Rabbinic Law in the Bavli
PART II. IMAGINING RABBIS - Geoffrey Herman: The Exilarch, His Supporters
and Detractors - Moshe Lavee: Gentiles in the Talmudic Imagination
- Charlotte Fonrobert: Toward a Social History of Gender
and Discourses of Sex in the Formation of the Babylonian
Talmud - Avigail Manekin-Bamberger: The Bavli and the Bowls:
A Prolegomenon
PART III. THE BAVLI AND EMPIRE STUDIES - Yael Wilfand and Reuven Kiperwasser: Rome in
the Babylonian Rabbinic Imagination - Michal Bar-Asher Siegal: Christianity In and Around
the Talmud - Simcha Gross: The Impact of the Sasanian Empire on
the Culture and Literature of the Babylonian Rabbis - Shai Secunda: The Bavli and Zoroastrianism
PART IV. TALMUDIC DISCOURSE - Ayelet Hoffman Libson: Talmudic Hermeneutics
of the Mishnah - Shira Shmidman: Traditions in the Babylonian Talmud:
Between Preservation and Emendation - Barry Wimpfheimer: The Talmud Personified:
What is the Stam? - Willem Smelik: Bilingualism and Code-switching:
Hebrew and Aramaic as Literary Strata
PART V. TALMUDIC DISCOURSE II - Richard Hidary: Machloket, Legal Pluralism,
and Polysemy - Mira Wasserman: What is the Talmud Made Of?
- Eliezer Segal: What is Aggada: Views from the Bavli
- Yishai Kiel: The Bavli’s Jurisprudence
- Tzvi Novick: Theology and the Bavli:
The Case of Messianism
PART VI. NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF THE TALMUD - Sarit Kattan Gribetz and Lynn Kaye: Frontiers of Time
in Babylonian Talmud Studies - Beth Berkowitz: Animal Studies and the Talmud
- Julia Watts Belser: Disability Studies and the Talmud:
Normativity, Impairment, and the Politics of Obligation - M Adryael Tong: Queer Approaches to Talmud
B. What Is the Talmud? Later Perspectives
PART VII. THE TALMUD: RECEPTION AND STUDY - Robert Brody: Inscription, Reception, and Study
in the Geonic Period - Ephraim Kanarfogel: Talmudic Commentary from Rashi to
the Late Middle Ages: Models, Methods,
and Interactions - Talya Fishman: Medieval Jewish Subcultures Receive the
Talmudic Text: The Impact of Regional Trends and Antecedent
Oral Cultures
PART VIII. THE TALMUD: RECEPTION AND STUDY - Yakov Z. Mayer: The Talmud in Christian Hands
- Jay M. Harris: What Was The Talmud? The Challenges of the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Europe - David Stern: The Material Transmission of the Talmud:
From the Geniza to Steinsaltz and Schottenstein
PART IX. CONTEXTS OF CONTEMPORARY TALMUD STUDY - Tal Ilan: Feminist Approaches to the Babylonian Talmud
- Shlomo Zuckier: Daf Yomi and the Resurgence
of Talmud Study in the Traditional Jewish World - Ruth Calderon: The Israeli Option: Secular Talmud Study
in Israeli Culture
PART X. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS - Daniel Boyarin: What is the Talmud?