From Text to Tradition. A History of Second Temple and Ktav

The era of the Second Temple period and the Mishna and the Talmud can be called "axial age" not only Jews, but also world history. At the beginning of this time period is the emergence of the biblical canon, in the middle - the emergence of Christianity and the destruction of the Second Temple, in the end - drawing equal vinisticheskogo Judaism and its fundamental documents: the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud. Such an eventful that determined the fate of European and Middle Eastern civilizations, makes the period under review is truly unique.