Book List Summer 78 Trimester

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1 Book List Summer 78 Trimester PRO338: Bread and Butter Nusach Cantor Michael Kasper Harlow, Jules (ed.), Siddur Sim Shalom: A Prayerbook for Shabbat, Festivals, and Weekdays, 1985, The Rabbinical Assembly, NY Or Siddur Sim Shalom in two volumes, For Shabbat and Festivals, 1998, and For Weekdays, 2002, The Rabbinical Assembly, NY PRO326: Education Susan Werk Course packet will be provided. HIS401: Great Ideas and Debates of Jewish History Dr. Eric Miller Efron, John, Steven Weitzman, and Matthias Lehmann, The Jews: A History (New York: Routledge, 2016, Second edition). Multiple documents will be provided through a link to Google Drive. Some of these are required reading, and in some cases just suggested reading. I will indicate beforehand which category they fall into at least the week prior to each week s class. HAL476: Halakhah of Marriage Dr. Tzemah Yoreh Course materials will be provided.

2 PRO312: Homiletics/Divrei Torah Rabbi Debra Orenstein Book list will be sent out by May 11. RAB431: Intermediate/Advanced Talmud Joshua Schwartz Steinsaltz Bava Kamma v. 2 Mishneh Torah Nezikin, ideally the Frenkel edition, but any will be accepted. You are also required to obtain and have available the following dictionaries and study aids: Frank, Yitzhak and Ezra Zion Melamed. Practical Talmud Dictionary. Feldheim; 2nd ed., Jastrow, Marcus. Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, and Midrashic Literature. Judaica Press, (Also: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005.) Also available online: Part 1: Part 2: HAL401: Intro to Codes Rabbi David Almog Course materials will be provided. RAB231: Intro to Talmud Rabbi Jeff Hoffman Required books: Steinsaltz Talmud, volume 1, Berakhot. This is the all-hebrew edition of the Steinsaltz Talmud. There are two all-hebrew editions of the Steinsaltz Talmud. One is the original edition, in which Steinsaltz re-set the entire Talmud in a different form from the traditional Vilna-Romm edition. That s the one we will use. The other is called the Tzurat HaDaf edition. That edition includes the Vilna-Romm edition s version of each page of Talmud facing each page of the Steinsaltz version. That is not the one we will use. Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature. This book is available in standard, hard-copy form. It is also available, in its entirety, available for free (!) on the web. Just search a bit and you ll find it.

3 Yitzhak Frank, The Practical Talmud Dictionary. Aryeh Carmell, Aiding Talmud Study, 1986 edition or later. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Koren Talmud Bavli, Volume 1, Berakhot Recommended books and articles: Adin Steinsaltz, The Talmud: A Reference Guide. Strongly recommended. The AJR library owns a couple of copies, but they are on Reference, and so cannot be taken out of the Bet Midrash. It would be helpful to have this when preparing homework. Moses Mielziner, Introduction to the Talmud, 1894, 1925, Very useful descriptions still for the Talmud student, even though much of the scholarship is outdated. Available used on Amazon in paperback. Richard Kalmin, The Formation and Character of the Babylonian Talmud, Chapter 33 in The Cambridge History of Judaism. Abraham Goldberg's chapter "The Babylonian Talmud" in The Literature of the Sages, vol. 1, ed. by Shmuel Safrai, MEC131: Mechina III Yivat Avner Hebrew from Scratch Part 1 + CD (Chayat) PHI311: Medieval Jewish Philosophy Rabbi Dr. Len Levin Required books: 3 Jewish Philosophers: Philo, Saadia, Halevi (Toby Press, 2006, ISBN ) Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed (any edition you have is OK but we will be using the Barnes & Noble edition ISBN as standard) A folder on Google Drive with supplementary readings is now available. It contains selections from Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ibn Gabirol, Gersonides, Crescas, etc. Click on this link to access the folder:

4 Medieval Jewish Philosophy Readings Recommended books: Students who have the time and interest to delve further are encouraged to supplement their study of the thinkers of this course with secondary accounts of their life and thought. The following are all good: Eliezer Schweid, The Classic Jewish Philosophers (which I translated), is on reserve in the AJR Beit Midrash. It has recently come out in paperback but is still expensive. Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, is the most current scholarly work by a single author. Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism, is a classic work now out of print but available inexpensively through used-book services (such as ). Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman, editors, History of Jewish Philosophy from the Routledge History of World Philosophies series, is a multi-authored work that represents some of the best current scholarship in the field. BIB320: Megillot Dr. Job Jindo Required texts: Recommended: Levenson, Jon D. Esther, A Commentary. Old Testament Library. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, BIB250: Parshanut Dr. Job Jindo Required Texts:

5 Recommended: Carasik, Michael. The Commentators Bible: The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot. 5 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, [The volume of Genesis will be published this August] INT331: Sacred Arts/Circus Arts Dr. Ora Horn Prouser and Ayal Prouser Required: Other course materials will be provided.