Description: The Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, stands as one of the central pillars of Jewish intellectual, cultural, and religious life. The essays collected in What Is the Talmud? provide a comprehensive exploration of the Talmud's origins, compilation, and redaction, its study across generations, and its enduring influence on Jewish life.
Brief description: Christine Hayes is Sterling Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies at Yale University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She is the author of Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities and What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives.