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Everyman's Talmud

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Written by Abraham CohenAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Abraham Cohen

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
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  • Publisher: Schocken
  • On Sale: February 7, 1995
  • Price: $19.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-8052-1032-3 (0-8052-1032-6)
about this book

Long regarded as the classic introduction to the teachings of the Talmud, this comprehensive and masterly distillation summarizes the wisdom of the rabbinic sages on the dominant themes of Judaism.

"Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of the Talmud in particular..."--From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner

Contents

Introduction

1. The Doctrine of God

2. God and the Universe

3. The Doctrine of Man

4. Revelation

5. Domestic Life

6. Social Life

7. The Moral Life

8. The Physical Life

9. Folk-Lore

10. Jurisprudence

11. The Hereafter