"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. Everyman's Talmud 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."
—(From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner)
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: 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.
