The Babylonian Talmud, Original Text Edited, Corrected, Formulated, and Translated into English

by Michael Levi Rodkinson

From the 1903 and 1918 editions, all 20 volumes.Despite the dry subject matter the Talmud makes interesting reading because it is infused with vigorous intellectual debate, humor and deep wisdom. ""Rodkinson's Talmud is, by definition, an abridgement for modern readers. He left out only the sections where the debate spins off into complete obscurity, and was careful to document where he did so."" In response to customer requests, on 6/12/2008 we added hundreds more links, to improve navigation through this huge text. Click on a volume to go there. Then in the table of contents for that volume, click on a chapter title to go there. And from the chapter, click on the chapter title to go to the summary of that chapter. If you bought a copy before, you should be able to download the revised version from Amazon at no additional cost. The product number is the same.

Genres: Judaism, Spirituality

4153 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 23, 2007

About the author

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was an American-Jewish publisher, known for being the first to translate the Babylonian Talmud to English.

Reviews

[Jeffrey]

For the same reasons I'm reading the bible and the Quran ( see Quran review)