Learning to Read Talmud

Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Associate Dean of Academic Development and Advising at Hebrew College. She is the author of Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law (Cambridge University Press 2014).

"The volume...contains valuable, practical ideas. It should be in academic libraries where Jewish Studies are taught, and in research centers that seek to enhance the value of creative thought."—Fred Isaac, Temple Sinai, Oakland, CA, AJL Reviews (May/June 2017)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLearning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie LehmanChapter 1. Stop Making Sense: Using Text Guides to Help Students Learn to Read Talmud Beth A. BerkowitzChapter 2. Looking for Problems: A Pedagogic Quest for Difficulties Ethan M. TuckerChapter 3. What Others Have to Say: Secondary Readings in Learning to Read Talmud Jane L. KanarekChapter 4. And No One Gave the Torah to the Priests: Reading the Mishnah’s References to the Priests and the Temple Marjorie LehmanChapter 5. Talmud for Non-Rabbis: Teaching Graduate Students in the Academy Gregg E. GardnerChapter 6. When Cultural Assumptions about Texts and Reading Fail: Teaching Talmud as Liberal Arts Elizabeth Shanks AlexanderChapter 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s Classroom Jonathan S. MilgramChapter 8. Talmud that Works Your Heart: New Approaches to Reading Sarra LevPostscript. What We Have Learned About Learning to Read Talmud Jon A. LevisohnContributors