“…studying Talmud…connects the (presumably) pluralistic ideas of the learner with the very activity in which they are engaged”
Even as the Shoah and the State of Israel were essential drivers of Greenberg...
Category Archives: Babylonian Talmud
“No talmudic discussion regards the recitation of [the Song of the Day] as anything other than temple practice”
…the daily Levitical songs (Pss 24, 48, 82, 94, 81, 93, 92) as recorded...
“A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations”
Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
“The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization”
The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
“the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading”
The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli”
The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of...
“Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here and there, or chameleons that change color to fit the scenery”
Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here...
“The Korean Talmud and its outsized popularity can thus also be understood as a form of Occidentalism”
The turn to the Talmud as a book of Western wisdom in Japan, Korea,...
“recycling…is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at major urban centres at opposite ends of the Sasanian empire…”
It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...
Cultivated Crops during the Time of the Babylonian Talmud
As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily...