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Learning to read Talmud : what it looks like and how it happens / edited by Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Hebrew Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1618115146
  • 9781618115140
  • 9781618115133
  • 1618115138
  • 9781618115775
  • 1618115774
  • 9781644692431
  • 1644692430
  • 9781644691779
  • 1644691779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 296.1/206 23
LOC classification:
  • BM504.2 .L373 2016eb
Other classification:
  • BD 3300
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Learning to read Talmud: what it looks like and how it happens / Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 1. Stop making sense: using text study guides to help students learn to read Talmud / Beth A. Berkowitz -- chapter 2. Looking for problems: a pedagogic quest for difficulties / Ethan M. Tucker -- chapter 3. What others have to say: secondary readings in learning to read Talmud / Jane L. Kanarek -- chapter 4. And no one gave the Torah to the priests: reading the Mishnah's references to the priests and the temple / Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 5. Talmud for non-Rabbis: teachinf graduate students in the academy / Gregg E. Gardner -- chapter 6. When cultural assumptions about texts and reading fail: teaching Talmud as liberal arts / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- chapter 7. Talmud in the mouth: oral recitation and repetition through the ages and in today's classroom / Jonathan S. Milgram -- chapter 8. Talmud that works your heart: new approaches to reading / Sarra Lev -- Postscript. What we have learned about learning to read Talmud / Jon A. Levisohn.
Summary: 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.
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Introduction: Learning to read Talmud: what it looks like and how it happens / Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 1. Stop making sense: using text study guides to help students learn to read Talmud / Beth A. Berkowitz -- chapter 2. Looking for problems: a pedagogic quest for difficulties / Ethan M. Tucker -- chapter 3. What others have to say: secondary readings in learning to read Talmud / Jane L. Kanarek -- chapter 4. And no one gave the Torah to the priests: reading the Mishnah's references to the priests and the temple / Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 5. Talmud for non-Rabbis: teachinf graduate students in the academy / Gregg E. Gardner -- chapter 6. When cultural assumptions about texts and reading fail: teaching Talmud as liberal arts / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- chapter 7. Talmud in the mouth: oral recitation and repetition through the ages and in today's classroom / Jonathan S. Milgram -- chapter 8. Talmud that works your heart: new approaches to reading / Sarra Lev -- Postscript. What we have learned about learning to read Talmud / Jon A. Levisohn.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English and Hebrew.

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