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Judaism of the Talmud and Midrash

Library Instruction - Religious Studies 367

The works listed below, unless otherwise noted, are all housed in the MacKimmie Library reference collection on 2LB.

HANDBOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS and DICTIONARIES which contain information on Judaism include the following titles:

• BL 31 E56 1987
  The Encyclopedia of religion 16v.
  Also available electronically on standalone workstation 219
• BL 31 E57 1979
  Encyclopedic dictionary of religion 3v.
• BM 45 Z43 1973 v.4 (Located on 5LT)
  Solomon Zeitlin's studies in the early history of Judaism
  v. 4: History of Early Talmudic Law
• BM 50 E52 1971
  Encyclopaedia Judaica 16v.
  Also available electronically on standalone workstation 219
• BM 495.5 036 1920 (Located on 5LT)
  Oesterley, W.O.E. and G.H. Box. A short survey of the literature of Rabbinical and Mediaeval Judaism.
• BM 500.5 E541 1969 (Located on 5LT)
  Zevin, Shelomah Yosef. Encyclopedia Talmudica: a digest of Halachic Literature and Jewish law from the Tannaitic period to the present time, alphabetically arranged.
  v. 1-3 only covers up to "Beyn".
• BM 503.5 S7313 1996
  Strack, H.L. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash
• BM 700 K54 1979
  Klein, Isaac. A Guide to Jewish religious practice
• PJ 5205 J36 1967
  Jastrow, Marcus. A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature 2v.

PERIODICAL ARTICLES on JUDAISM can be found by using BIBLIOGRAPHIES and INDEXES

Indexes include:

• ATLAS Full Text Plus
  This major index to Religious studies articles published from 1949 to the present is available electronically to University of Calgary students, faculty and staff via the web. Full text is available for a number of the journals.
• RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
  Very comprehensive index to journal articles in all aspects of Judaism

Bibliographies include:

• BM 40 S78
  The Study of Judaism: bibliographical essays 2v.
• BM 155.2 G74 1988
  Griffiths, David B. A Critical bibliography of writings on Judaism 2v.
• BM 177 S78 1981
  The Study of ancient Judaism. / edited by J. Neusner
  v.1 Mishnah, Midrash, Siddur
  v.2 The Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds (reprint of article in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt - DG 209 T44 1972 v.2 pt.19b)
• BM 521 W44 1989
  Jewish law: bibliography of sources and scholarship in English
• DG 209 T44 1972 v. 2 pt. 19b
  Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt. (Located on 5LT)
  "Midrash" p.103-138
  "An Annotated bibliographical guide to the study of the Palestinian Talmud" p.139-256
  "The Babylonian Talmud" p.257-336
  See also (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/biblio/anrw.html), the web index to this collection.
• DS 102 C76 1982
  Cutter, Charles and Micha Falk Oppenheim. Jewish reference sources: a selective, annotated bibliographic guide
• DS 102 I56 1984
  International bibliography of Jewish history and thought / edited by Jonathan Kaplan
• DS 117 B45 1971 (located on 5LT)
  Index to Festschriften in Jewish studies / compiled and edited by Charles Berlin

Selected Internet Resources:

• Ancient Mysticism : Hekhalot Literature (http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibmyshk.htm)
• Metatron Bibliograph (http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/bibmetat.html)
• Midrash Bibliography (http://www.huc.edu/midrash)
• WebShas index to the Talmud - can search by subject category and by key word to see where issues are discussed in the Talmud (http://www.aishdas.org/webshas)
• Talmud Guide - if you only have the title of the chapter of the Talmud, you can use this guide to determine which tractate the title is found in. Note the titles are listed in Hebrew (http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/hebrew/peraktoc.html)