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• Winner of Nacham Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Award for Scholarship: Biblical/Rabbinic Category, He 2006 (Canada)

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Segal's book moves us from his own brief sermonic thought on the material to our more intense personal commentary. We try to solve with him or against him what he sees as the weakness of these Talmudic debates. This is a book that is a study guide and partner--not a book that lays it all out and settles issues. Segal's Introduction is scholarly and masterful, his Conclusion delightfully pensive and informed if not unabashed, editorial journalism. The work is vintage Segal.''--Herbert Basser, Queen's University Studies in Religion, Vol 35, no 3-4, 2006

Still, Segal gives us a fresh perspective on the relations of Babylonian midrash to other rabbinic literature and offers insight into why the Babylonian midrash has a form that now strikes many of us as strange. Segal concludes the monograph by raising a number of interesting issues, including the importance of recognizing the dangers of blurring the borders between exegesis and homiletics.''--Jay Newman Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006 All who would seek to understand the haggadah of the Babylonian Talmud, as well as its relation to Palestinian tradition, would be very well served by reading this book.''--Joshua Schwartz Review of Biblical Literature, June 2006 Segal's book moves us from his own brief sermonic thought on the material to our more intense personal commentary. We try to solve with him or against him what he sees as the weakness of these Talmudic debates. This is a book that is a study guide and partner--not a book that lays it all out and settles issues. Segal's Introduction is scholarly and masterful, his Conclusion delightfully pensive and informed if not unabashed, editorial journalism. The work is vintage Segal.''--Herbert Basser, Queen's University Studies in Religion, Vol 35, no 3-4, 2006 ``Still, Segal gives us a fresh perspective on the relations of Babylonian midrash to other rabbinic literature and offers insight into why the Babylonian midrash has a form that now strikes many of us as strange. Segal concludes the monograph by raising a number of interesting issues, including the importance of recognizing the dangers of blurring the borders between exegesis and homiletics.''--Jay Newman Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006 ``All who would seek to understand the haggadah of the Babylonian Talmud, as well as its relation to Palestinian tradition, would be very well served by reading this book.''--Joshua Schwartz Review of Biblical Literature, June 2006 ``Segal's book moves us from his own brief sermonic thought on the material to our more intense personal commentary. We try to solve with him or against him what he sees as the weakness of these Talmudic debates. This is a book that is a study guide and partner--not a book that lays it all out and settles issues. Segal's Introduction is scholarly and masterful, his Conclusion delightfully pensive and informed if not unabashed, editorial journalism. The work is vintage Segal.''--Herbert Basser, Queen's University Studies in Religion, Vol 35, no 3-4, 2006 ``Eliezer Segal makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Talmudic literature in From Sermon to Commentary. In thirty compact chapters, he examines selected extracts from the Babylonian Talmud to judge their interpretative value. He compares these extracts with corresponding passages in the Palestinian Talmud, and finds the former wanting in coherency and meaning.... Segal's book expands appreciably our knowledge of the nature of biblical interpretation in the Babyloninan Talmud and allows us to understand some of the bewildering passages in the aggadic Midrashim. This book is recommended not only to scholars of Talmud but anyone concerned with the exegesis in general.''--Matthew Lagrone University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1, Winter 2008 Eliezer Segal makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Talmudic literature in From Sermon to Commentary. In thirty compact chapters, he examines selected extracts from the Babylonian Talmud to judge their interpretative value. He compares these extracts with corresponding passages in the Palestinian Talmud, and finds the former wanting in coherency and meaning.... Segal's book expands appreciably our knowledge of the nature of biblical interpretation in the Babyloninan Talmud and allows us to understand some of the bewildering passages in the aggadic Midrashim. This book is recommended not only to scholars of Talmud but anyone concerned with the exegesis in general.''--Matthew Lagrone University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1, Winter 2008

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Eliezer Segal is a professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary. A native of Montreal, he holds a PhD in rabbinics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary areas of research include Talmudic literature, Jewish law and homiletics, and comparative biblical interpretation. His publications include scholarly monographs, popular scholarship, a children's book, and many articles and book chapters.

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