Everyman's Talmud

<b>Long regarded as the classic introduction to the teachings of the Talmud this comprehensive and masterly distillation summarizes the wisdom of the rabbinic sages on the dominant themes of Judaism.<br></b><br>To some readers of this book the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know about a book that they are told defines Judaism. <i>Everyman's Talmud</i> is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of the Talmud in particular . . . In time to come Cohen's book will find its companion-though I do not anticipate it will ever require a successor for what it accomplishes with elegance and intelligence: a systematic theology of the Talmud's Judaism.<br>--From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner <p/>This classic introduction reveals the wisdom of the rabbinic sages on such topics as the doctrine of God; God and the universe; the soul and its destiny; prophesy and revelation; physical life; moral life and social living; law ethics and jurisprudence; legends and folk traditions; the Messiah and the world to come.