CHAPTER 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s Classroom

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens viii
5. CHAPTER 1. Stop Making Sense: Using Text Study Guides to Help Students Learn to Read Talmud 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Looking for Problems: A Pedagogic Quest for Difficulties 35
7. CHAPTER 3. What Others Have to Say: Secondary Readings in Learning to Read Talmud 57
8. CHAPTER 4. And No One Gave the Torah to the Priests: Reading the Mishnah’s References to the Priests and the Temple 85
9. CHAPTER 5. Talmud for Non-Rabbis: Teaching Graduate Students in the Academy 117
10. CHAPTER 6. When Cultural Assumptions about Texts and Reading Fail: Teaching Talmud as Liberal Arts 137
11. CHAPTER 7. Talmud in the Mouth: Oral Recitation and Repetition through the Ages and in Today’s Classroom 159
12. CHAPTER 8. Talmud that Works Your Heart: New Approaches to Reading 175
13. POSTSCRIPT. What We Have Learned about Learning to Read Talmud 203
14. Contributors 219
15. Index 223