Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on transliteration
- Note on Biblical translations
- Note on the Babylonian Talmud
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Talmudic argument
- 2 The literary form of the Babylonian Talmud
- 3 Berērah: retrospective specification
- 4 Yeúsh she-lo mi-da‘at: unconscious abandonment of property
- 5 Rubba: probability
- 6 Davar she-lo ba le-'olam: conveyance of a thing not yet in existence
- 7 Kol she-eyno be-zeh aḥar zeh afilu be-vat aḥat eyno: whatever cannot be established in a consecutive sequence cannot be established even in a simultaneous sequence
- 8 Yesh ḥoresh telem eḥad: a single act of ploughing can result in a number of penalties
- 9 Simanin de-oraita o de-rabbanan: whether reliance on distinguishing marks for the purpose of identification is Biblical or Rabbinic
- 10 Devarim she-be-lev eynam devarim: mental reservations in contracts are disregarded
- 11 Ḥazakah: presumptive state
- 12 Gadol kevod ha-beriot: the law and regard for human dignity
- 13 Hazmanah milta: whether the designation of an object for a particular use is effective
- 14 Mitzvat ‘aseh she-ha-zeman geramah: positive precepts dependent on time from which women are exempt
- 15 Heyzek she-eyno nikar: indiscernible damage to property
- 16 Kinyan ḥatzer: acquisition by means of a domain
- 17 Palginan be-dibbura: admission of part of a testimony even though another part of the same testimony is rejected
- 18 Tadir u-mekuddash: which takes precedence: the more constant or the more sacred?
- 19 Palga nizka: the nature of the payment of half-damages to which the owner of a goring ox is liable
- 20 Patur mi-diney adam ve-ḥayyav be-diney shamayim: cases where there is liability in the eyes of God even though the human courts cannot enforce payment
- 21 Maḥal ‘al kevodo kevodo maḥul: renunciation of honour by one to whom it is due
- 22 Conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on transliteration
- Note on Biblical translations
- Note on the Babylonian Talmud
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Talmudic argument
- 2 The literary form of the Babylonian Talmud
- 3 Berērah: retrospective specification
- 4 Yeúsh she-lo mi-da‘at: unconscious abandonment of property
- 5 Rubba: probability
- 6 Davar she-lo ba le-'olam: conveyance of a thing not yet in existence
- 7 Kol she-eyno be-zeh aḥar zeh afilu be-vat aḥat eyno: whatever cannot be established in a consecutive sequence cannot be established even in a simultaneous sequence
- 8 Yesh ḥoresh telem eḥad: a single act of ploughing can result in a number of penalties
- 9 Simanin de-oraita o de-rabbanan: whether reliance on distinguishing marks for the purpose of identification is Biblical or Rabbinic
- 10 Devarim she-be-lev eynam devarim: mental reservations in contracts are disregarded
- 11 Ḥazakah: presumptive state
- 12 Gadol kevod ha-beriot: the law and regard for human dignity
- 13 Hazmanah milta: whether the designation of an object for a particular use is effective
- 14 Mitzvat ‘aseh she-ha-zeman geramah: positive precepts dependent on time from which women are exempt
- 15 Heyzek she-eyno nikar: indiscernible damage to property
- 16 Kinyan ḥatzer: acquisition by means of a domain
- 17 Palginan be-dibbura: admission of part of a testimony even though another part of the same testimony is rejected
- 18 Tadir u-mekuddash: which takes precedence: the more constant or the more sacred?
- 19 Palga nizka: the nature of the payment of half-damages to which the owner of a goring ox is liable
- 20 Patur mi-diney adam ve-ḥayyav be-diney shamayim: cases where there is liability in the eyes of God even though the human courts cannot enforce payment
- 21 Maḥal ‘al kevodo kevodo maḥul: renunciation of honour by one to whom it is due
- 22 Conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
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- The Talmudic ArgumentA Study in Talmudic Reasoning and Methodology, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984