Academic study of the Talmud once provoked anger. In “The Promise,” Chaim Potok’s 1969 sequel to “The Chosen,” Orthodox rabbinical student Reuven Malter wants to emend manuscripts and track the text’s ...
In 1997, near the end of the long-running television comedy “Seinfeld,” Larry Charles said that when he and the other writers would sit down to produce a script, it was like “writing the Talmud — a ...
About an hour’s drive north of Seoul, in the Gwangju Mountains, nearly fifty South Korean children pore over a book. The text is an unlikely choice: the Talmud, the fifteen-hundred-year-old book of ...
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