In light of the recent publication of four books on the Bavli, a session (modeled after a predecessor on What is Mishnah) entitled “What is Bavli” was organized this past December at the annual Association of Jewish Studies conference. The panel considered recent developments in scholarship on the literary structure and cultural context of the Bavli, and discussed the possibilities opened by these developments; the broad historical, literary, methodological, and conceptual questions which they raise or imply; and the problems which the field currently confronts. ... The Talmud Blog will be publishing the papers of this session over the next two weeks, and a PDF of the entire forum will be available for download when the forum is completed. ...The first installment is I. Approaching the Bavli’s Structure (Pt. 1/3): papers by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Shai Secunda.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Forum on the Babylonian Talmud
THE TALMUD BLOG: What is Bavli: A Forum.
