Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens - Paperback

by Jane L. Kanarek (Editor), Marjorie Lehman (Editor)

The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by scholars of Talmud, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal.

Author Biography

Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib's Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Wayne State University Press), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award-Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in the category of Scholarship.