The Babylonian Talmud
by David Goodblatt, Haifa
Table of Contents
|
| I. Introduction |
259 |
| II. The Text of BT |
262 |
1. Introduction |
264 |
2. Manuscripts |
265 |
3. Witnesses to the Text |
266 |
4. Editions |
267 |
5. Text Criticism |
268 |
a) The History of Text Criticism |
268 |
b) Collations of Variants and Critical Editions
|
270 |
c) The Principles of ET Text Criticism |
271 |
| III. The Languages of BT |
273 |
1. Introduction |
276 |
2. The Hebrew of BT |
277 |
3. Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic |
278 |
4. Lexicography |
280 |
| IV. Source, Form, and Redaction Criticism |
281 |
1. Source Criticism |
285 |
a) The Palestinian Sources |
285 |
b) The Babylonian Sources |
289 |
a') Variant Versions |
289 |
b') Quotations |
289 |
c') Parallel Pericopae |
290 |
d') Inconsistencies within a Pericope |
290 |
e') The Anonymous Material and Early Redactions
of BT |
291 |
f') Form and Subject Matter |
293 |
g') Post-Amoraic Sources |
294 |
c) Summary and Critique |
296 |
2. Form Criticism |
297 |
a) The Brief Versus the Discursive |
297 |
b) Other Forms |
301 |
c) The Sitz im Leben of the Forms
|
303 |
d) Summary |
303 |
3. Redaction Criticism |
304 |
a) The Tractates |
304 |
b) The Traditional Theory of the Redaction
of BT |
307 |
c) The Two Source Theories |
314 |
| V. Hilfsbücher and Related Works |
319 |
1. Introductions, Methodology, Bibliographies,
Encyclopediae and Special Lexica |
324 |
a) Introductions and Methodology |
324 |
b) Bibliographies |
324 |
c) Encyclopediae and Special Lexica |
325 |
2. Commentaries |
326 |
3. Translations and Anthologies |
328 |
4. Related Fields |
329 |
a) History |
329 |
b) Archaeology, Geography, Realia |
330 |
c) Religion |
330 |
d) Law |
331 |
| Indices |
331 |
| I. Index of Names |
331 |
| II. Index of Places |
334 |
| III. Index of Citations |
335 |
A. Babylonian Talmud and Amoraic Midrashim |
335 |
B. Medieval Sources |
335 |
