Lampel, Zvi, trans. Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud. New York:
Judaica Press, 1975.
Neusner, Jacob. Why No Gospels in Talmudic Judaism. Brown Judaic Studies
125. Atlanta: Scholar, 1988.
Strack, Hermann L. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. New York:
Atheneum, 1959.
Aminoah, Noah, and Yosef Nitzan. Torah the Oral Tradition: An Outline of
Rabbinic Literature Throughout the Ages. Jerusalem: World Zionist
Organization, n.d.
Neusner, Jacob. An Introduction to Rabbinic Literature. Anchor Bible
Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
On a more technical level:
Halivni, David Weiss. Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in
Rabbinic Exegesis. Oxford: O.U.P, 1991.
But for the sheer joy of browsing and "dipping":
Montefiore, C./G, and Loewe, ed. A Rabbinic Anthology. New York: Schocken,
1974.
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[Bray, Ireland ]
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