Preface; Bibliography; Part One The Talmud's Formal Qualities; Part Two How the Talmud thinks; Part Three The Talmud and Judaism; Appendix: The Bavli's Unique Voice; General Subject Index; Index of Textual References.
Summary
This systematic introduction to the Talmud of Babylonia (Bavli) seeks to answer basic questions of form: how is this a coherent document? How do we make sense of the several languages in which it is written? What are the principal parts of the complex writing?
