Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Oren" <soren AT enteract.com>]

Well, no.  Let's assume first of all that you are talking about 
Orthodox/Conservative Rabbis. People did not study to become Rabbis, they 
studied to become scholars.Tthe vast majority of the time of any such student 
is on the Gemara, the Babylonian Talmud with emphasis on the tractates in 
sections Nashim (women) such as Gitin (divorces), Kiddushin (marriages), and 
Ketubot (marriage-contracts) and Nezikin (damages) .  The texts were studied 
with the commentaries certainly of Rashi and the Tosafot (both from France in 
the 11-13th centuries) and other commentaries depending on where and when the 
student was.If such a scholar decided he (and until recently, it was only men 
who became Rabbis or scholars)wanted to become a Rabbi,
in addition to being questioned on his general knowledge of Talmud, he would 
be expectyed to know the practical laws deriving from Tractate Hullin, 
dealing with the slaughtering of meat and mixtures of meat and milk.

Put differently, Rabbis are lawyers, not Theologians, Philosophers, or Bible 
scholars, by training.

                                                                              
               Steve Oren

                                                                              
                Chicago, IL
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> This question may be much too complicated for a short answer, but ... What
> books do Jews study in order to become Rabbis? (Obviously the Tanakh.) A
> Christian layperson friend is looking for insight into the preparation of a
> Teacher.
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> Dave Stabnow
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