The Talmud, A Biography: Banned, Censored and Burned. The Book They Could Not Suppress

Contents: 

• The Talmud in its world. In the beginning
• The origins of the Talmud
• Returning to Babylon
• The compilation of the Talmud
• The flowering of Babylon
• From your father's house
• Coming of age
• The age of the giants
• The Talmud in the world. Banned, censored and burned : the thirteenth century
• Printers and polemics
• A royal Talmud, a Protestant rabbi
• The wisdom of the Greeks
• The challenge of the Enlightenment
• The problem with emancipation
• A new world in the making