Monday, January 23, 2012

Latest on Talmud Blog Book Club

THE TALMUD BLOG BOOK CLUB has finished its discussion of its first book and has posted a response by the author. See the post Clearing out the Living Room. Next it will be discussing an article: Zvi Septimus’ “Trigger Words and Simultexts: The Experience of Reading the Bavli," now available as a pdf file in the post Updates Regarding the TBBC. The next book on their agenda is Talya Fishman, Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures, noted on PaleoJudaica recently here.