Babylonian Talmud, Scholarship “…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense,...
Babylonian Talmud, Beer “Being the principal alcoholic beverage of Mesopotamia, beer is discussed at length in the Babylonian Talmud and, naturally, the vocabulary is Mesopotamian” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 June 2017 Being the principal alcoholic beverage of Mesopotamia, it is discussed at length in the...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Judaism “The practice of waiting seven blood-free days following the end of a regular menstrual period is variously described in the Talmud as heḥemiru al atzman, minhaga, and halakhah pesukah, indicating that a variety of attitudes existed as to the severity of the requirement” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 June 2017 Zimmerman is correct in saying that a seven-day wait after any bleeding has become...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud “…the term halakhah pesukah need not be considered the opposite of minhaga. It may simply mean a rule that cannot be questioned or supported on the basis of conventional talmudic dialectics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 May 2017 Perhaps it can be argued that the ḥumra of the daughters of Israel is...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Late Antiquity, Wine “The contrast between wine culture of Palestine and beer culture of Babylonia is well documented in the Talmud…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Passover “Through their sharp political interpretations of the Passover story, Rav and Shmuel described the political condition of the Jewish people long after the Exodus from Egypt” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2017 In its transition from Joseph’s death to a new era, the book of Exodus...
Babylonian Talmud, Judaism, Rabbinic Literature “…the true Jewish ethos of modesty does not exclusively pertain to sexuality…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 February 2017 The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...
Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Wine “…it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the Talmudic period” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 …it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the...