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[German Version] I. General Rabbinic literature compri…

[German Version] (Jun 5, 1878, Frankfurt am Main – Jul 28, 1957, Jerusalem). After studying classical philology, Isaak Heinemann taught at grammar schools, at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Wrocław (Breslau; 1919–1938), where he was editor of the Monatsschrift ( MGWJ) from 1919 onward, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (from 1938). During the Breslau years…

[German Version] I. Clarification of the Concept Talmud (derived from למד/ lamad, “to learn,” or limmad, “to teach”) signifies “study, instruction, teaching” (as first attested in Qumran: 4QpNah II 8), and more specifically the commentary on the Mishnah in the Talmud Bavli ( b; see below II) and the Talmud Yerushalmi ( y; see below III). The Talmud is made up of the Mishnah and the Gemara (Aram. גמר/ gemar, “to complete, to learn”), the “traditional teaching” or “completion” of the Mishnah in the interpretation of the Amoraim. II. Talmud Bavli Soon after the compiling of the Mishnah, …

[German Version] (May 28, 1898, Motol, near Pinsk – Mar 23, 1983, during a flight to Israel). After being educated at various yeshivas, Liebermann studied medicine in Paris. He went to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1928 to study the Talmud and classical philology. In 1931 he began teaching the Talmud in Jerusalem and from 1940 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. One of the leading talmudic scholars of his age, he made seminal contributions to the study of the Palestinian Talmud ( …

[German Version] I. Old Testament – II. New Testament – III. Fundamental Theology – IV. Philosophy of R…

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