Authors: Harry Freedman

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The Talmud (30 page)

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Acknowledgements

I
have
acquired
knowledge
from
all
my
teachers.
So wrote
the author of Psalm 119, who people say was King David. I owe a debt of gratitude to all my teachers, the sages who lived in ages past, the scholars and academics whom I have never met but whose works I have encountered and of course those whose words I heard from their own mouths. (I would like to have said, as a student of earlier generations might, ‘at whose feet I sat’ but of course we don’t sit at our teachers’ feet these days.) The knowledge is theirs, any errors only mine.

More particularly I would like to thank my agent, Sheila Ableman, for her unbounded enthusiasm for the book and for her ongoing support. To Robin Baird-Smith for his positivity, energy and for believing in the idea, to Joel Simons for his adept managing of the project, and his patience even when I was at my most trying, and to Anya Rosenberg, Helen Flood and the rest of the team at Bloomsbury. Grateful thanks too to Kim Storry for project managing the prepress, and to Sue Cope for her diligent copy editing and for being prepared to work all hours to meet the deadline.

Thanks also to Professor Jerry Gotel for reading the manuscript, to Dayan Ivan Binstock for the conversations which taught me so much, to Paul Summer for solving the Jacob Landau riddle, to Ivor Jacobs for helping me lay my hands on vital out-of-print texts and to my brother Jeremy Freedman for explaining how Henry VIII’s Talmudic investigations influenced English divorce law. Particular thanks must go to my parents Joan and Louis Freedman who made sure that I received an education which enabled me to read and understand the Talmud, to my children Josh and Mollie whose continual interest and probing questions obliged me to sharpen my wits and to my wife Karen for her unflagging support and encouragement. Finally, words can never adequately acknowledge just how much I owe to the greatest of all my Talmud teachers, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, whose scholarship, wit,
breadth
of knowledge and profound humanity turned the Talmud from a dusty tome to a source of inspiration for so many people. May his memory be for a blessing.

Index

Abassids
56
–
7
see also
under respective caliphs

Abba Sikra
18

Abelard, Peter
104
–
5

Abraham ben David of Posquières
96
–
7

Abraham ibn Daud
91
–
2
see also
legend of the four captives

Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Qirqisani
73
–
4

academies
see
yeshiva

Adelkind, Cornelius
143
–
4

aggada
46
–
7
,
116
,
123

Ahai Gaon
66
–
7

Akiva, Rabbi
23
–
7
,
33
,
119
,
127

Al-Andalus
see
Spain

Alexander the Great
30
,
89
–
90

Al-Idrisi, Muhammad
81

Al-Ma’mun, Caliph
56
–
7

Al-Mansur, Caliph
56

Almohads
94
–
5

ambiguity
65
,
213
see also
disagreement

America
132
,
184
–
5
,
198
see also
Reformed Judaism

Amoraim
42
–
3
,
49
,
61

Amram Gaon
67
–
8
,
80
,
88

Anan ben David
71
–
2
,
75

ancient French
102

Ancient Mediterranean
14
–
15

Andres de Bernaldez (Priest)
132
,
141

anti-Christian sentiments, alleged
116
,
146
–
7

Arba’ah Turim
(Four Rows)
135

Artabanus, King of Parthia
34

artisans
36
–
7

ArtScroll Talmud
209

Asher ben Yehiel
135
,
143

Ashi, Rav
38
,
48
,
49

Ashkenazim
135

Assi, Rav
45
–
6

astronomy
38
,
156
–
60

Augustine of Hippo
124
–
5

authorship
10
,
52
,
66
,
160

Babylon
11
–
12
,
29
–
30
,
34

academy in Nehardea
32
–
5

exilarchy
30
–
2

geography
35
–
9

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