Question 1: One feature of this method is the use of ________' Mishneh Torah as a guide to Talmudic interpretation, as distinct from its use as a source of practical halakha. | |||
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Question 2: The rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as ________. | |||
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Question 3: This may be interpreted as meaning that, following the restoration of the ________ and the line of ordained scholars, the work will be completed and "out of Zion shall go the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem". | |||
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Question 4: Generally, however, the Talmud is studied as a historical source-text for ________. | |||
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Question 5: After the death of ________, however, the center of Talmud scholarship shifts to Europe and North Africa. | |||
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Question 6: ________, Sources and Traditions: Types of Compositions in the Talmud of Babylonia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992). | |||
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Question 7: The Talmud was likewise the subject of the ________ in 1263 between Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman) and Christian convert, Pablo Christiani. | |||
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Question 8: But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant about the year 200 C.E., when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the ________ (משנה). | |||
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Question 9: ________ similarly emphasizes the study of Talmud within its religious and rabbinic education. | |||
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Question 10: As such, some adherents, most notably ________ and his followers, resisted any effort to apply historical methods that imputed specific motives to the authors of the Talmud. | |||
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