Topics in Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds

A capstone course with continued emphasis on methods introduced in Aramaic 350, including the principles of Talmudic argumentation and philological skills. The course will bring material together from a variety of rabbinic and pre-Rabbinic sources (Hebrew Bible, Tannaitic words, the Talmuds, midrashic collections). Students will also be introduced to basic comparative methods.

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