Publisher's description: Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."

Presented as a graphical exegesis. Neusner (religious studies, U. of South Florida) offers an outline form of a previous translation by Tzvee Zahavy, intending to thereby show how the Talmud is structured as an orderly and rational document. The author's own actual commentary is limited to a preface and an introduction to the last chapter. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR