Learning to read Talmud : what it looks like and how it happens / edited by Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Learning to read Talmud: what it looks like and how it happens / Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 1. Stop making sense: using text study guides to help students learn to read Talmud / Beth A. Berkowitz -- chapter 2. Looking for problems: a pedagogic quest for difficulties / Ethan M. Tucker -- chapter 3. What others have to say: secondary readings in learning to read Talmud / Jane L. Kanarek -- chapter 4. And no one gave the Torah to the priests: reading the Mishnah's references to the priests and the temple / Marjorie Lehman -- chapter 5. Talmud for non-Rabbis: teachinf graduate students in the academy / Gregg E. Gardner -- chapter 6. When cultural assumptions about texts and reading fail: teaching Talmud as liberal arts / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander -- chapter 7. Talmud in the mouth: oral recitation and repetition through the ages and in today's classroom / Jonathan S. Milgram -- chapter 8. Talmud that works your heart: new approaches to reading / Sarra Lev -- Postscript. What we have learned about learning to read Talmud / Jon A. Levisohn.

The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of classroom studies conducted by scholars of Talmud, this book elucidates a broad range of ideas about what it means to learn to read Talmud and tools for how to achieve that goal.

Text in English and Hebrew.