"Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought provides a comprehensive, non-technical, and theoretically informed introduction to the nature of rabbinic thought and the literary evidence we have for it. There are user-friendly tables, a glossary, and translated Sample Texts representing the Mishnah, exegetical Midrash, the talmudic sugya, and the rabbinic homily. The book is accessible to all readers, as no prior knowledge of rabbinic Judaism is presupposed."--BOOK JACKET.