Structure and form in the Babylonian Talmud

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 138 pages. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-138). Contents: The Babylonian Talmud: an introductory note ; 1 How much of the Babylonian Talmud is pseudepigraphic?; 2 The Babylonian Talmud: an academic work; 3 Rabbinic views on the order and authorship of the Biblical books The Talmudic source; 4 Literary analysis of the sugya in Bava Kama; 5 Literary analysis of the sugya in Bava Kama; 6 Literary analysis of the sugya on taking the blame on oneself ; 7 Literary analysis of the sugya of 'half and half'; 8 Rabbi Joshua b. Hananiah and the elders of the house of Athens ; 9 Bavli and Yerushalmi on Rabban Gamaliel and Rabbi Joshua;10 Bavli and Yerushalmi on Rabbi Dosa and the Sages; The Babylonian Talmud version; The Jerusalem Talmud version; Analysis. 11 The Rabbi Banaah stories in Bava Batra; 12 The device of addehakhi, 'just then; 13 Conclusion ; Glossary ; Notes ; Bibliography. Subjects: Talmud Criticism, Redaction; Talmud Bavli Criticism, Form; Religion; Judaism Talmud Critical studies; Judaism Scriptures.