Learning to Read Talmud

Jane L. Kanarek is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Associate Dean of Academic Development and Advising at Hebrew College. She is the author of Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law (Cambridge University Press 2014).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman
Chapter 1. Stop Making Sense: Using Text Guides to Help Students Learn to Read Talmud Beth A. Berkowitz
Chapter 2. Looking for Problems: A Pedagogic Quest for Difficulties Ethan M. Tucker
Chapter 3. What Others Have to Say: Secondary Readings in Learning to Read Talmud Jane L. Kanarek
Chapter 4. And No One Gave the Torah to the Priests: Reading the Mishnah’s References to the Priests and the Temple Marjorie Lehman
Chapter 5. Talmud for Non-Rabbis: Teaching Graduate Students in the Academy Gregg E. Gardner
Chapter 6. When Cultural Assumptions about Texts and Reading Fail: Teaching Talmud as Liberal Arts Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Chapter 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s Classroom Jonathan S. Milgram
Chapter 8. Talmud that Works Your Heart: New Approaches to Reading Sarra Lev
Postscript. What We Have Learned About Learning to Read Talmud Jon A. Levisohn
Contributors