Contents -- Preface -- Bibliography -- Part One The Talmud's Formal Qualities -- Chapter one: The Bavli's One Voice -- Chapter two: The Bavli's Two Languages -- Chapter three: The Bavli's Constituent Elements: Compositions and Composites -- Part Two How the Talmud thinks -- Chapter four: The Bavli's Intellectual Character -- Chapter five: The Bavli's Dialectics -- Part Three The Talmud and Judaism -- Chapter six: The Talmud and the Torah -- Chapter seven: The Question of Tradition -- Appendix: The Bavli's Unique Voice -- General Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Y -- Index of Textual References.