Babylonian Talmud, South Korea “The Korean Talmud and its outsized popularity can thus also be understood as a form of Occidentalism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2019 The turn to the Talmud as a book of Western wisdom in Japan, Korea,...
Babylonian Talmud “recycling…is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at major urban centres at opposite ends of the Sasanian empire…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...
Babylonian Talmud Cultivated Crops during the Time of the Babylonian Talmud Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily...
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,...
Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Scholarship “The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the...
Rabbinic Literature “Rabbinic and Roman texts create the impression of a clear dichotomy between slaves and free people…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 March 2018 Rabbinic and Roman texts create the impression of a clear dichotomy between slaves and...
Rabbinic Literature, Talmudic Sages “For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2017 For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation. First,...
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...
Bible, Judaism, Menstrual Impurity, Rabbinic Literature, Tannaim, Tannaitic Literature “In addition to the biblical distinction between normal and abnormal discharges, the rabbis developed two more categories…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 June 2017 Leviticus 15 is concerned with normal and abnormal, male and female genital discharges. As...
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...