Learning to Read Talmud

Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics at Hebrew College. She is the author of Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law. She received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a PhD from the University of Chicago, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It HappensJane L. Kanarek and Marjorie LehmanChapter 1. Stop Making Sense: Using Text Guides to Help Students Learn to Read TalmudBeth A. BerkowitzChapter 2. Looking for Problems: A Pedagogic Quest for DifficultiesEthan M. TuckerChapter 3. What Others Have to Say: Secondary Readings in Learning to Read TalmudJane L. KanarekChapter 4. And No One Gave the Torah to the Priests: Reading the Mishnah’s References to the Priests and the TempleMarjorie LehmanChapter 5. Talmud for Non-Rabbis: Teaching Graduate Students in the AcademyGregg E. GardnerChapter 6. When Cultural Assumptions about Texts and Reading Fail: Teaching Talmud as Liberal ArtsElizabeth Shanks AlexanderChapter 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s ClassroomJonathan S. MilgramChapter 8. Talmud that Works Your Heart: New Approaches to ReadingSarra LevPostscript. What We Have Learned About Learning to Read TalmudJon A. LevisohnContributors

"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)