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.

The first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, 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.

"This book makes a significant and exciting contribution to the field of teaching Talmud. Each of the articles is well written, thoughtful, and engaging. The authors ground their work in a rich body of scholarship on reflective practice in teaching and learning in general, as well as more specific literatures on the teaching of historical and rabbinic texts. this is a strong collection of articles that uncover the power of reflective practice in teaching. Indeed, as Jon Levisohn writes in his summation, the variety of pedagogies these instructors practice reveal a shared "culture of metacognition" that is relevant to teachers of Talmud and those engaged in the teaching of primary texts in any field."